Red dot always shown in Safari even though there are no notifications and web push permissions have already been denied

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Steps to reproduce

1. Open Nextcloud on Safari
2. Click bell icon with red dot
3. If asked, deny web push permissions
4. Open Nextcloud in new tab
5. Notice red dot on bell icon
6. Click bell icon
7. There are no notifications

Expected behaviour

If there are no notifications and web push permissions have been denied, a red dot should not be displayed

Actual behaviour

Red dot it displayed even tough web push permissions have been denied and there are no notifications

Server configuration

Web server: Nginx

Database: MySQL

PHP version: 8.5

Nextcloud version: 33.0.5

List of activated apps

not relevant

Nextcloud configuration

also not relevant

Browser

Browser name: Safari

Browser version: 26.5 (21624.2.5.11.4)

Operating system: macOS Tahoe 26.5

Browser log:

[Info] Notifications permissions not yet requested (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Has notify_push enabled, slowing polling to 15 minutes (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Polling interval updated to 900000 (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Started background fetcher as session_keepalive is enabled (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Got notification data, restoring default polling interval. (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)

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Additional Info:

I believe the dot is shown because of webNotificationsGranted === null, see https://github.com/nextcloud/notifications/blob/9ca979d446e21dc9024291d132a4b6cf2289788c/src/NotificationsApp.vue#L18

This is because none of the scenarios covered by the if-tree in checkWebNotificationPermission() match, so null is returned (which is also why Notifications permissions not yet requested)
https://github.com/nextcloud/notifications/blob/9ca979d446e21dc9024291d132a4b6cf2289788c/src/NotificationsApp.vue#L539-L566

Curiously, from the browser console, window.Notification.permission returns default, even though Nextcloud had previously already requested web push permissions and I had not granted them. This is also reflected in Safari's settings:

When removing the entry within Safari's settings and reloading the window, I get asked for notification permissions again. If I click deny and refresh again, everything is working fine and there is no red dot:

[Debug] Notifications permissions denied (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Has notify_push enabled, slowing polling to 15 minutes (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Polling interval updated to 900000 (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Started background fetcher as session_keepalive is enabled (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)
[Debug] Got notification data, restoring default polling interval. (NotificationsApp-iD1fLC7v.chunk.mjs, line 86)

This time, window.Notification.permission correctly returns deny.

However, after opening Nextcloud in a new tab, the red dot appears again, the log again shows Notifications permissions not yet requested and window.Notification.permission returns default again.

It seems like window.Notification.permission is not reliable on Safari, leading to the red dot appearing when it shouldn't. A quick google search led me to a Reddit thread, where in the comments someone mentioned using pushManager instead, so maybe that is the solution? This is probably also what https://github.com/nextcloud/notifications/issues/2969 is about?

Thanks for looking into this!

Start in src/NotificationsApp.vue, especially the webNotificationsGranted state and checkWebNotificationPermission() around lines 539-566. Reproduce the behavior in Safari and inspect how window.Notification.permission is handled across tabs. Done means the red dot is absent when there are no notifications and web push permission has been denied, with the relevant notification behavior still logged correctly.