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Apparently I need 10 posts to post a link (LOL), but if you do a Google search for 'ios 8 app badge number won't go away' and click the first link you can see the bug has been happening for a few months now (at least) and has not been addressed.
It's not the apps. It's an iOS 8 bug. I update all my apps through iTunes. If I ever accidentally check the app store on my phone to see what updates there are, the badge will not go away until I update an app through my phone. If for instance Quiz Up has an update and I go to the app store and...
8.1.1 fixed the WiFi issues on my 5S that 8.1 broke. On 8.1 everything loaded through WiFi would take an extra 2-5~ seconds to load, every webpage, every high score page on Quiz Up. Every Reddit page in Alien Blue. It was horrible, now it's back to being normal. 8.1.1 didn't fix any other bug...
Updated from 7.1.2 to 8.1 on iPhone 5S. I created a folder for all the new iOS apps and both times when I restarted my phone it changed the folder name to 'New folder' no other folder was affected. Once when I went to Settings>Manage Storage it just closed the window. Also once when I was in...