That means you have an app waiting for you to update. the only way to get rid of that red badge on the app store icon is to update the app that's ready for the update.. Luckily apple also gives you a way to deal with these app badges. so when your “inbox zero” plan isn’t going very well, or you can’t find the setting in the app, or you just don’t care to see that number in red, here’s how to hide the app badge. step 1: open the settings app. step 2: go to notification center. step 3: find the app.. Question: q: red number of updates on app store icon. when i open the app store on my iphone 4 and there is an update and i close the app store again, there is a number badge of how many updates there are. this number disappears after a while and appears again when i open the app store again..
Tap the home button, then tap and hold down on the app store icon in the recents tray until it wiggles, then tap the red minus sign. tap the home button twice and restart the ipad. go back to app store and see if the app appears on the screen.. As an example, here’s what disabling the red badge icons for an email client in a modern version of ios for iphone looks like: the effect of an app icon before and after toggling this switch is the removal of the red icon with the number on it, that’s the “badge app icon” as ios calls it:. App store on my iphone keeps on showing that there are 3 new updates, but when i click on updates, it shows 0 new updates. it will update the badge count to 0 new updates as well, but not much later the 3 new updates will appear..