Anyone know what this means?

Does anyone know what this number is on my iPhoto icon on my MacBook? I haven’t been able to find anything about it and it’s kinda annoying!

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If you have shared an album and allowed comments on your photos in that album, then the badge would mean that someone has left a comment that hasn’t been read yet.

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Like @anon41602260 already has stated, it could be an unread comment on a photo in a shared iCloud photo album.

A second possibility is that somebody has saved a new photo to a shared iCloud photo album.

If you do not care about those notifications and if you want to get rid of this badge without looking at those comments/photos, you can disable the badge:

Visit System Preferences - Notification - Photo and untick the option badge app icon.

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