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Why is there a red dot on my iMac system preferences icon?

The System Preferences icon on my iMac dock has a red dot with the number 1 in it. However, nothing in the System Preferences window itself or in the Notifications Center list shows any indication that a notification is 'active'.

Reading elsewhere, the red dot on the Notifications icon seems to be part of the icon design, but why the red dot and number on my dock icon?

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Mar 30, 2017 9:56 AM

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27alx

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Posted on Apr 1, 2017 11:56 PM

Go to icloud in system preferences, and mine was asking to 2 stage authentication. After this was sorted mine was normal.

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Nov 11, 2017 5:44 AM in response to wacvet

This IS an issue, I have signed out of all, logged into all, passed 2 factor verifications for all, still have a few red dots going on ...

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Why is there a red dot on my iMac system preferences icon?