iOS: App Icon Badge Will Not Go Away - iphone

I've added a Local Notification into my app, but for some reason, the app installs with a "1" icon. Opening it and closing it doesn't seem to make it go away. I typed application.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0; into the app delegate, and have localNotif.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0; in my notification area. Does anyone know what I'm missing? Thank you!

This should work. Place it in applicationDidFinishLaunching in your app delegate file (or anywhere else, but that's a good place to test).
[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;

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[UIApplication sharedApplication].applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0;
Add that line in whatever code handles the user's interaction with the local notification. If you want the badge to be cleared when the local notification fires, you can't (because setting the notification's applicationIconBadgeNumber property to 0 would simply mean "don't change the existing badge.")

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