How to Turn off Unread Mail Count in Mail App on iPhone

Don't like Badge Number notifying you about the unread Emails and Messages? You can disable Mail Count on iPhone, iPad.

Emails flooding in mail inbox is tolerable for business and professional persons. Here is a complete guide on how to hide or remove the number badge on the mail app icon. Awesome Apple’s mail app is very useful for your all-mail account. So you can add more than one Email account on the Mail app and receive emails from all accounts within a single mail app. Like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, and Private hosted accounts. On my iPhone, thousands of total mail are unread from Gmail, iCloud, and Howtoisolve accounts. Follow the steps below to hide an unread mail count badge for all or selected accounts.

Note: if you added more than one mail account, then you can manage it, like from which account you want to show the unread mail number as a badge icon.

How Do I Get Rid of the Mail Badge on My iPhone, iPad?

Follow the bottom steps to Hide the Unread eMail Number on Mail Icons for iPhone & iPad for running the latest iOS and iPadOS Apple devices.

  1. Open the Settings App
  2. scroll down the screen Tap Notifications
  3. Navigate Mail to tap on it.
Select Mail Settings On iPhone
  1. on the mail Notification setting screen, you can see Allow Notification with turned ON/green toggle.
  2. Tap iCloud
  3. Next, Turn the toggle to the left side “Badges”.
Turn off Badges for Mail app on iPhone

That’s it! After this, Your device’s Email icon not showing number of emails. if you want it back, please follow the above steps and make the badges toggle green located in the Mail App notifications settings.

I hope that you get the answer to the How do I get rid of the red number on my settings app icon? If after the iCloud mail badge i s turned off, even a red number count shows on a mail App icon, that means there are other email accounts you have added, so please check out and turn off the badge for all email accounts separately. This is the solution to red number count that won’t go away on mail app iOS and iPadOS.

By disabling the above settings, you will get new mail in your mailbox as it is. But you can’t see the unread mail count on your iPhone’s home screen (Mail App icon, see below image).

Want more help about hiding unread mail count or number/remove unread mail accounts on the app icon or pending mail count?

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1 thought on “How to Turn off Unread Mail Count in Mail App on iPhone”

  1. Hi. I have a red 1 above my email box on I phone 11 pro… obviously indicating an unread email. But I don’t have any unread emails. when I turn the badges off it disappears but as soon as I turn the badges on it reappears . I have turned the phone off several times but still the 1 unread email sign appears. Help??

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