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I think you’re probably talking about what’s illustrated here:

I’ve never seen that on any of my Android phones, but I think what you’re missing now is the “notification badge” which can be rendered in different ways depending on what flavor of Android you’re using. If you can answer a few follow-up questions, that might lead to your getting better help here:

  • What version of Android are you using?
  • Is it possible your Android version got an update around the time you noticed the change?
  • What device are you using? (Since Android is open source, many manufacturers modify it with customizations for their own devices. Samsung is notorious for this (and not in a good way, IMO).)
  • Do you have these notification badges with numbers on other apps? Is it only the Wyze app that’s affected by the issue you’re experiencing?

Having said that, while I’ve never seen a notification badge with a number as an overlay of the Wyze app icon, I do get a notification badge as a dot when I have pending Wyze notifications. I’m running essentially “stock” Android 13 on a Google Pixel device, and I can turn on notification dots system-wide this way:

  1. Open the phone’s Settings.
  2. Tap Notifications.
  3. Tap to enable Notification dot on app icon.

For a per-app setting, I’d do this:

  1. Long press an app’s (e.g., Wyze) icon.
  2. Tap App info in the menu that pops up.
  3. Tap Notifications on the app’s App info screen.
  4. Tap to enable Allow notification dot.

This article might help, but note that it applies to Google’s version of Android (or stock Android) and specifically includes this caveat: “Important: Settings can vary by phone. For more info, contact your device manufacturer.”

So if you’re using Samsung’s version of Android, for example, you may need to do some searching (or get advice from a Samsung user here) on Samsung’s site about how to get it working.

Now, having said all that, I suppose it’s possible that a recent Wyze app update induced this change, but your post is the first mention of this that I’ve seen, so I’m inclined to think it may be an Android version or settings issue on your phone, and I think answering the questions I mentioned above :point_up: might help us help you.

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