What does the little clock on an app mean in the new dock on iPad and how do I shut it off?

None of those work, at least for me. All of it is turned off, and still get the additional icon with the clock on the corner in the dock.

Thank you, this helped me get rid of the annoying clock above Netflix. I don’t often use Netflix at 7:00 am. Lol.

This doesn't work. That annoying icon just keeps popping up in the mt bar. Apple sure likes to make up stupid features, and get rid of actually useful ones.

I GOT RID OF IT. I DELETED THE FREAKIN APP. APPLE IS RIDICULOUS. IM A 22 YEAR MAC USER. NOT THE SAME COMPANY. EVERY UPDATE IS JUST A NEW SERIES OF HEADACHES.

This problem is not specific to just one app so deleting an app is not always the best solution.

Incidentally, I have switched Location-Based Suggestions back on without the problem reoccurring.

Same problem here (iPad Air 2, only a year old, not old technology).

when you go back to home screen, either with home button press or four-finger gesture, the dock first shows only the standard app icons (or ones that have been explicitly, manually placed). After a few seconds, the dock adds the machine learned app icon with an alarm badge and “slides over” so as to keep the dock centered on the screen. The time between positioning a finger to select a docked app icon, and actually touching the screen, is enough time for the dock to recenter itself, thus, you wind up selecting the wrong app icon and opening the wrong app.

its a UX bug and we hope developers fix it soon.

the fix is either one of two things: first, allow option to completely disable the machine learning app icons in the home screen dock; second, do NOT auto-center the home screen dock, especially when machine learning is enabled.

PS: to answer other posts, turning the device off, then back on, will make the machine learned app icon go away completely but only for a 24-hour period; it comes back the next day. At least restarting a device is a good thing because it keeps the file system cleaned and flushed 😒

For the files app to go out of the dock and stay out of the dock, delete it. Then you can search the app store, find it, redownload it and it will stay out of the dock. It seems like, since it’s a new app, it’s hard wired to remain where it can be easily seen, however if you delete and redownload it then it will not do that and will stay where you put it

My iPad is “machine learning” - who knew. This creeps me out, altho Apple has a better reputation than others with regard to privacy. Interesting that the phone person didn’t know what the badge was either. I wish they would default “cool” ideas from 25-year olds like this to “disabled.” Thanks for getting to the bottom of this!

The original question was in relation to the clock icon that appears over certain App icons on the Dock. Not the clock icon on the status bar.

It references an App that has been used in the past at around that particular time. No relation to Alarms.

Go to Home Screen

Swipe to left-most page (the search screen)

Scroll down to bottom and touch “edit”

Swipe to remove the “Siri Suggestions” (or similarly named) item

The little clock icon in the status bar is an indicator that you have an alarm set. If you turn off all your alarms then the clock icon does not appear.