title: iPhone: Increment badge counter automatically
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1942605/push-notification-badge-auto-increment">Push-Notification Badge auto increment.</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have implemented Push Notification for my iPhone application. Whenever I get the message, I want to increment badge value by one so I need not to pass it in Push Notification payload. Is it possible?</p>
  
  <p>From <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1942605/push-notification-badge-auto-increment">here</a> I learnt that I have to manage that from server side, so that's the only way? I had to store the previous value in Database and get the last value whenever I send next message? Isn't Apple support this automatically like incrementing application.applicationIconBadgeNumber whenever Push Notification received.</p>
  
  <p>The problem with managing Badge number from server side is if user has already seen the previous Push Notification message, you would send wrong badge number!</p>