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Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of badging in most browsers is that badges can only be shown on the taskbar while the PWA is open. Learn more about how to enable badging on your site. Users must also opt into receiving notifications from the site. However, for privacy reasons, updating a badge via the service worker push event also requires that the site show a toast notification. Service workers allow users to receive notifications or badge updates when the site or PWA is not open. Developers can set and update badges using the Badging API from documents or service workers. With the latest version of Microsoft Edge, PWAs and pinned sites can now display badges as well.īasic support for badging PWAs has been available on Windows and Mac since Edge 81, as well as in other Chromium browsers. For years, desktop and mobile operating systems have supported showing a badge with a notification count on surfaces like the Windows taskbar, macOS dock, and Android or iOS home screen, but this feature has always been limited to native apps. While notification toasts-the little messages that appear with important alerts-are incredibly helpful when used properly, some types of notifications are better suited to a more lightweight update. This feature is available now for anyone using Edge 85 on Windows 10 version 20H1 and above. Web developers don’t need to make any special changes to their website for users to receive notifications while Microsoft Edge is closed-it all just works. Taking advantage of background notifications is easy, and any site which supports web push notifications using the web standard Push API, Notifications API, and web push protocol is already supported. The legacy version of Microsoft Edge addressed this issue with support for background notifications while the browser was closed, and we’re excited to share that the new version of Microsoft Edge now does as well. And when users do finally open their browser, they’re treated to a flood of incoming notifications that may no longer be relevant. Most desktop browsers only receive notifications while they’re running, causing users to miss out on important updates if the browser is closed. Notifications when you need them, not just when the browser is open

Today, we’re excited to share more about the work we’re doing to ensure users never miss out on the notifications they care about. Stay tuned for more updates on this soon. This was just the first step, and we are working to reenable the full notification prompt for sites with desired notifications while maintaining quiet requests for others.

Earlier this summer we announced a set of changes to make notification requests less distracting for users. Notifications are an important part of the web, helping users stay up to date about what’s going on.