Recent achievements notifications and "gamer is following you" notifications won't clear.

Yeah i agree. I had a notification the other day regarding someone following me. Would much prefer the message as i sometimes think my notifications are just recent achievements or installs etc.

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Currently is not possible to deactivate the notification number on the notification section of the guide, you won't get the pop up notification for the achievement but it will be on the notification panel

Notifications, as mentioned above will cause the achievements not to show up.

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Also, if you have your online status set to "busy", it will temporarily disable notifications, and achievements won't show.

The problem here isn't with adding friends specifically, but with the notification system, which is very buggy and intermittent.

In theory, adding friends is easy: You get the notification, you press view profile, then add friend.

Or you pick a player from the recent players list, then add friend.

Or... Well you get the idea. The problem is undoubtedly with the notifications. Every morning I get two notifications: One to say [gamer] and three other people added me as a friend, and one to say [gamer] and two other people requested to join my club.

The dates are from January and March, and no matter how I clear them, they won't go away.

In the meantime, if you want to add someone specifically, I suggest obtaining their gamertag, pressing the Xbox button, going to the friends tag and selecting search for person.

All I do is click on the tab at the top left to enter them and then it close.

That clears them out.