Badges

Just installed Ring on my Samsung G7 Edge. On the actual icon, I now have the tiny number badge telling me the number of incidents. In 24 hours, I have the little orange badge showing 17 and still counting. The only way I could get rid of them was to go the the actual app and turn off notifications. Howwever, I want to see the notifications, but I also want to clear them similar to messages & voice mail. Any ideas??