Banner notifications, badges, reminders, and more can easily take over your life if you don’t manage them properly. While Windows 11 offers improved notifications, you now also get badges in the taskbar, especially if you have an IM pinned to it. This can be annoying, and you might want to disable it. Here’s how to do that.

There are a few ways to disable or hide badges on the taskbar. Here's how:

You will no longer receive badge notifications for pinned apps in your taskbar.

This is probably because the changes have not yet been reflected in Explorer. You can restart your system to fix this issue or use the guide below to restart Explorer.