ios 8 app store updates badge icon not resetting

Your advice solved this very, very, very annoying problem for me. Thank you!

Thanks,

This worked for me! Note: You need to have Apps turned on and Updates turned on. The instant you turn off "Updates" the red badge icon with your appropriate number (mine was a 1) returns.

I cannot believe this is still happening.But it is!

Thank you. I have a 6S plus and the tip resolved issue. Thank you for taking time to share tip and helping others.

The issue is with the feature called App Splicing.

Whenever you update an app OTA, the iPhone only downloads specific packages that is relevant to the hardware, for example if you have an app that is universal(app that can run on iPad, iPhone on different screen sizes) OTA update will provide smaller sized file since it's not the whole package however if you update the app over iTunes the whole package is being downloaded thus a bigger file so that whenever you sync your iPad or iPhone, it does not matter what screen size, the same app can be installed because it's a complete app.

App Store tags the same app differently depending on the hardware(screen size) though we see the same version on the App Store. This is the reason why an updated app thru iTunes is not recognised by iOS App Store as an updated app even though when you check iTunes and your iPhone they show the same version of the app.

App Splicing is also the reason why apps that you have downloaded thru your phone no longer transfer on your Mac. Previous versions of iOS allows transfer of app from phone to Mac since iOS downloads the whole package however with App splicing an iPhone 6 app will not work with an iPhone 6 Plus.

Thanks worked for me although I only had to turn auto updates on as they were off and it fixed it.

It appears your answer worked for several people; however, it did not work for me. I tried your answer, plus several variations of your answer.

However, I did solve this problem a different way, so I wanted to reply and help the community.

What worked for me is this:

• I opened the App Store and went to the Updates tab.
• Then, I minimized the App Store by clicking the Home button.
• Then, I went to Settings and turned on Airplane Mode.
• Next, I went back to the App Store on the Updates tab. At this time, the apps which "needed" to be updated changed from [OPEN] to [UPDATE].
• I went back to Settings and turned off Airplane Mode (in order to re-activate my wi-fi connection).
• Then, I went back to the the App Store on the Updates tab and quickly tapped [UPDATE] on one of the apps.
• Note: I had to try this a few times because the App Store would change the app statuses from [UPDATE] to [OPEN] very quickly.
• Once I tapped on an [UPDATE] faster than it could change back to [OPEN], it kept the [UPDATE] status for the remaining apps (for me, there were 9 total)
• Then, I tapped Update All at the top - which then proceeded to update each app and reduce the notification number each time an app update completed until they were all finished.

I hope the above instructions helps someone else!

Finally this is solved!

Because the new iOS 10 has arrived, before the upgrade I did these steps:

-Update all the apps using iTunes (I have a Mac, I think it can works for windows also)

-Download the iOS 10 directly to the iPhone, but I did not install it yet

-Sync the iPhone with the Mac through iTunes

-All the apps were able to sync except "Pages, Numbers, Keynote" because all of them require iOS 10

-Disconnect the iPhone and proceed to install the iOS 10

-After the installation just perform another sync through iTunes

-Here is the badged finally disappeared

Good luck!

Regards,

Salvador

Finally this is solved!

Because the new iOS 10 has arrived, before the upgrade I did these steps:

-Update all the apps using iTunes (I have a Mac, I think it can works for windows also)

-Download the iOS 10 directly to the iPhone, but I did not install it yet

-Sync the iPhone with the Mac through iTunes

-All the apps were able to sync except "Pages, Numbers, Keynote" because all of them require iOS 10

-Disconnect the iPhone and proceed to install the iOS 10

-After the installation just perform another sync through iTunes

-Here is the badged finally disappeared

Good luck!

Regards,

Finally this is solved!

New iOS 10 has arrived; before the upgrade I did these steps:

-Update all the apps using iTunes (I have a Mac, I think it can also works for windows)

-Download the iOS 10 directly to the iPhone, but I did not install it

-Sync the iPhone with the Mac through iTunes

-All the apps were able to sync except "Pages, Numbers, Keynote" because all of them required iOS 10

-Disconnect the iPhone and proceed to install the iOS 10

-After the installation just did another sync through iTunes

-Here is it, the badges finally have disappeared

Good luck!

Regards,