Re: How to fix email icon not showing number of emails on Galaxy S6
Believe it or not, the fix for this issue is really easy! If you are not receiving the small number "bubble" on your email icon, you are most likely not receiving any numerical indications on your text icon or your voice mail icon as well. I had this happen, and my AT&T store told me that it was due to an upgrade downloaded to my phone. Completely not true!! So, this is how to restore the number bubbles on your email icon, text icon, and your voice mail icon.
1.) Open up your "Settings".
2.) Slide the pages until you get to the "Device" page.
3.) Open up "Applications".
4.) On the page that opens titled "Applications", look at the top of the page and find the "Application Manager" icon, and tap that to open it.
5.) The next page that appears is the "Applications Manager" page. At the very top right of the page you will see the word "More". Tap on "More".
6.) After taping "More", a box will open in the top right of the page. It will have two(2) choices..........."Sort by size" and "Reset app preferences".
7.) Tap on "Reset app preferences".
8.) This will open up the "Reset app preferences" box.
9.) At the bottom of the box, you have the choice to either choose "RESET" or "CANCEL".
10.) Tap on "RESET". This will reset all preferences for disabled apps, disabled app notifications, default apps for action, background data restrictions for apps, and any permission restrictions. YOU WILL NOT LOSE ANY APP DATA!!
11.) Your numerical "bubbles" for emails received, messages received, and voice mail received will be back to normal!!!!!
12.) Since you have reset disabled apps, default apps for action, background data restrictions for apps, and any permission restrictions, you will need to go back into settings to easily modify your Galaxy S6 preferences.
Follow these simple directions.......and your home page icons for email, texts, and voice mail will regain their numerical indicators. SIMPLE!!!!