Why are the app icon badges gone?

[Android Central Question]

Since my phone update, galaxy s8+, my phone will no longer show the number of emails I have or notifications on other apps. Ive turned on show badges, Ive turned on always on display, what else am I supposed to do? Before the update icons would show the number of msgs/notifications until I cleared them out. Now I don't know when its my turn in words with friends unless I happen to check it.

 

[djrakowski]

Google changed the way notifications are reported in Android 8.0 (Oreo). When you clear notifications from the notification area, it also clears the badge indicator.

 

[kxcd]

I understand this. Since the update, notification badges only randomly will appear on my S8.

For instance, before the update I used to go to Facebook and read all of my notifications. After an hour or so, I would have a notification badge that showed 10 notifications. Now when I do this, I get none after an hour. But if i go into FB, shows 10-15 unread. I turned ALL notifications for FB on trying to troubleshoot and haven't been able to figure it out...

 

[Stephf54]

Same here. Seems a lot of people are annoyed with this. I've tried a dozen things to get it to show again but nothing works.

 

[Dan Peters19841984]

Yup same here accept after the update

 

[Dan Peters19841984]

Yup same here accept after the update my phone wouldn't fast charge either and notifications wouldn't even make a noise. I'm techy and I cant figure this one out. I'm almost sure it's a stupid buggy update. Samsung needs to address this asap.

 

[bdk3604]

I have the same issue. Android Galaxy S8 plus Oreo 8.0. Also, when I plug in to charge, the phone unlocks now. I hope they fix this soon!