Message Icon Badges

[aliexpress]

Hi there, I am a recent samsung user that just switched from iPhone and for the life of me I cannot figure out how to keep my message icon badges showing my unread text messages when I leave the message app. There are times where I keep messages unread to help remind me of something I need to do but if I go in and answer a different message leaving some other convos unread, when I leave the message app all the icon badges disappear and never show that I have unread messages still. Can anyone help me figure this out? I have a Samsung galaxy z flip 4

[RedDogRabbit]

Should be: Settings > Apps and choose which apps you want to get Notification Badges from > Click on Notifications for that app & Toggle ON "Badges".

I use Nova Launcher & I know with it's Notification Badges, the badge on the App's Icon disappears after you have looked at any of the messages, it doesn't matter if you still have some unread.

However in the apps themselves, ie: Gmail, Google Messages, there's still a notification of unread messages, just not on the App's Icon, until you get a new message. 

[aliexpress]

Yeah I have that on and it still doesn't show the app badge icon when I go into the message app and exit when I know there are unread messages but it doesn't show anymore on the icon
It does it for my Facebook and Instagram and everything else just not my text messages

[aliexpress]

This is what I have on for my notification settings

[RedDogRabbit]

You need to go into Notification Categories & then you can Click on a Contact & if you have Notifications on for the Contact, Notification Badges SHOULD be Toggled ON by Default.

 

BUT I don't think that it's possible to keep the Notification Badges displayed, after you have opened the app & viewed ANY of the messages.

Within the app, ie: Google Messages, you'll still see a notification for unread messages though.  

As seen in the last screen shot illustrated by the dots in the red box.