diff --git a/ts/components/leftpane/ActionsPanel.tsx b/ts/components/leftpane/ActionsPanel.tsx
index 1186699ef..4a67bc81b 100644
--- a/ts/components/leftpane/ActionsPanel.tsx
+++ b/ts/components/leftpane/ActionsPanel.tsx
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+import { ipcRenderer } from 'electron';
 import { debounce } from 'lodash';
 import { useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
 
 import { useDispatch, useSelector } from 'react-redux';
 import useInterval from 'react-use/lib/useInterval';
 import useTimeoutFn from 'react-use/lib/useTimeoutFn';
+import useThrottleFn from 'react-use/lib/useThrottleFn';
 
 import { Data } from '../../data/data';
 import { getConversationController } from '../../session/conversations';
@@ -37,18 +39,18 @@ import { LeftPaneSectionContainer } from './LeftPaneSectionContainer';
 
 import { SettingsKey } from '../../data/settings-key';
 import { useFetchLatestReleaseFromFileServer } from '../../hooks/useFetchLatestReleaseFromFileServer';
+import { useHotkey } from '../../hooks/useHotkey';
 import {
   forceRefreshRandomSnodePool,
   getFreshSwarmFor,
 } from '../../session/apis/snode_api/snodePool';
 import { ConfigurationSync } from '../../session/utils/job_runners/jobs/ConfigurationSyncJob';
+import { getIsModalVisble } from '../../state/selectors/modal';
 import { useIsDarkTheme } from '../../state/selectors/theme';
 import { switchThemeTo } from '../../themes/switchTheme';
 import { ReleasedFeatures } from '../../util/releaseFeature';
 import { getOppositeTheme } from '../../util/theme';
 import { SessionNotificationCount } from '../icon/SessionNotificationCount';
-import { useHotkey } from '../../hooks/useHotkey';
-import { getIsModalVisble } from '../../state/selectors/modal';
 
 const Section = (props: { type: SectionType }) => {
   const ourNumber = useSelector(getOurNumber);
@@ -238,6 +240,19 @@ export const ActionsPanel = () => {
     return () => clearTimeout(timeout);
   }, []);
 
+  const globalUnreadMessageCount = useSelector(getGlobalUnreadMessageCount);
+
+  // Reuse the unreadToShow from the global state to update the badge count
+  useThrottleFn(
+    (unreadCount: number) => {
+      if (globalUnreadMessageCount !== undefined) {
+        ipcRenderer.send('update-badge-count', unreadCount);
+      }
+    },
+    2000,
+    [globalUnreadMessageCount]
+  );
+
   useInterval(cleanUpOldDecryptedMedias, startCleanUpMedia ? cleanUpMediasInterval : null);
 
   useFetchLatestReleaseFromFileServer();
diff --git a/ts/mains/main_node.ts b/ts/mains/main_node.ts
index 3de057251..cd4ba2a3f 100644
--- a/ts/mains/main_node.ts
+++ b/ts/mains/main_node.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import {
   dialog,
   protocol as electronProtocol,
   ipcMain as ipc,
+  ipcMain,
   IpcMainEvent,
   Menu,
   nativeTheme,
@@ -27,7 +28,7 @@ import { platform as osPlatform } from 'process';
 import url from 'url';
 
 import Logger from 'bunyan';
-import _, { isEmpty } from 'lodash';
+import _, { isEmpty, isNumber, isFinite } from 'lodash';
 import pify from 'pify';
 
 import { setupGlobalErrorHandler } from '../node/global_errors'; // checked - only node
@@ -1019,6 +1020,14 @@ ipc.on('get-start-in-tray', event => {
   }
 });
 
+ipcMain.on('update-badge-count', (_event, count) => {
+  if (app.isReady()) {
+    app.setBadgeCount(
+     isNumber(count) && isFinite(count) && count >= 0 ? count : 0 
+    );
+  }
+});
+
 ipc.on('get-opengroup-pruning', event => {
   try {
     const val = userConfig.get('opengroupPruning');