Android notification dots appearing on random apps I'm seeing a pale red notification dot randomly on apps in the launcher, even though I dont have notifications from that app.

Couldn't find much details online. Is it an indication that there is some background network activity from those apps at the moment? Is there a way to enable/disable this?

I have a OnePlus 3 with OxygenOS 5.0.1 (Android 8.0.0)

Here are a few screenshots, taken a few seconds apart.
As of now, this seems to be a bug and only appearing in OnePlus phones post the latest Oreo 8.0.0 update. It is unclear what they denote though.

Restarting the phone solves the problem temporarily. It will be safe to assume that a fix could come out in the next patch from OnePlus.

As @beeshyams discovered, this has been reported few times on the forums