By using Nova Launcher you can enable notification badges in your smartphone. Some smartphones has custom launchers designed by their own development team. For example Samsung has TouchWiz launcher, these launcher have special features like notification counter widget associated with the app icon. Whenever you get new messages, missed calls, Whatsapp messages, Facebook notifications etc. it shows number count with the app as shown below:

But stock Android launchers not having these features, if you have own OnePlus or Motorola smartphones you will miss these notification badges. For enabling notification badges in nova launcher you have to buy prime version.

How to enable Notification badges in Nova Launcher using TeslaUnRead app

After installing Nova launcher with prime, you have to install Tesla Unread app. This app is now no more available on playstore, therefore you have to download it from Tesla Coil website. Give the notification access to Tesla unread app in the settings. Now go to settings of Nova launcher and tap over notification badges. Select the style as numeric badges, and do customization for badges as per your taste. Also open Tesla Unread app and select the app for which you want to enable these numeric badges.

There are also many options in Notification Badges style, you can choose dynamic badges, dots (as seen in Android O). If you choose dynamic badges option you can seen different type of icon like for Whatsapp message you may see senders image, for missed call you see missed call icon near phone app etc. But in the dynamic badges, numeric counter will not be shown as how much unread messages you have.

How to fix Nova launcher badges missing or not shown on app icons

In case you are experiencing that Nova launcher badges are missing or not showing even you have have enabled Tesla Unread. This is happens because many stock ROM not fully supported third party app launchers and having compatibility issues. you can follow these steps to this this issue:

• Open Phone settings and search for notifications access
• In the list if notification access settings uncheck the access for Nova launcher & TeslaUnread
• Now open Nova Launcher settings by long pressing any empty space in home screen
• In the launcher settings tap on advanced settings
• Now restart Nova Launcher
• Again enable notification access for Nova launcher & TeslaUnread
• Restart again Nova Launcher

How enable notification badges in nova launcher using inbuilt settings

Update

Now Nava launcher does not support TeslaUnread app anymore. We have also received email from Nova support centre that they have stopped providing support for TeslaUnread, further this app is also not updated by them and not available on Google Play Store.

As per email nova stated that “this wasn’t our decision to make these changes but a decision made by Google. This is how all unread badges will be for the foreseeable future as Google has no plans of changing it any time soon.”

Now you can enable notification badges using inbuilt notification badge setting of nova launcher. You should have Nova Launcher Prime app to enable this feature. Further you must be using Nova Launcher version 6.1.6 or higher.

Earlier for numerical dots beta version was required but we have tested in Nova version 6.2.18 and notification dots also working well in stable version.

Follow the below steps to enable notification badges using nova settings:

1. Open the nova settings by two finger pinch in on any home screen or by log press on empty space on any home screen
2. Now in setting go to Notification badges
3. Now select your style as dots, numerical dots, or dynamic badges as per your desire
4. Enable notification access permission for nova launcher if asked through android settings
5. To work these notification badges notification must be available in status bar, if you clear the notification by swiping than these dots also will clear

Hope now you will not found any issues of disappearing of notification badges in TeslaUnread app.

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