It won’t be the first or the last time a notification appears on Android and when you want to read it, you delete it. The drama is coming. Because you may have the notification bubbles activated (if your mobile supports them) and you have more or less located them. But the frequent thing is that the notification disappears and in your head something similar is drawn: “and this notification what was it telling me”.
I admit it, a lot of things have always happened to me but in Android 11 the solution to my problems has finally arrived. I’m talking about the (not so) famous “Notification History”. The cure for those of us with big hands and hitting where it shouldn’t inadvertently slip at the wrong time. A history that stores absolutely everything your phone has shown you as a notification in the last 24 hours. Enough time to check in case of accident.
Notification history was created for clumsy
I have to admit, though, that even though it landed alongside Android 11, I didn’t really discover the power of Notification History until well before Android 12. I’m not here to lie to you, c is just so slow. He was as a result of the loss of a notification from the operating system itself. Among those that do not come back anymore because they are not associated with any specific application from which you can recover it.
It was then that a spark sprung up in my brain that reminded me of the story. I activated it on the spot I activated it since. We are talking, as I told you before, of a place on your Android where there is a list with absolutely all the notifications that the mobile has shown on the screen in the last day. 24 hours.
Logically, many of them may not lead anywhere. Like email notifications associated with an email you’ve already deleted. Or like message notifications. If you have deleted the object notified to you, its usefulness beyond information has ended. But the notification will be there
If your notification is not fully displayed (you have lock screen protection enabled, these are private messages), it is also not fully saved
Because it is another. The history saves the notification as such. Complete. Nothing about “at this time you received an email”, but you will see the snippet of the email as seen in the notification, and also who sent it to you sent”. So if you’ve enabled your notifications to show you message content, that content will still be there in the notification. The person who wrote something to you and then deleted it won’t be able to tell that it never existed because it will be printed in your notification history.
And yes, privacy is respected. As I told you, the notification is saved as it was displayed. So messages from secret telegram groups etc. will be displayed without the message content. You don’t have to worry about the history revealing more information than it should. Breathe and move forward.
Enable notification history
Enabling notification history is also quite simple. Just go to ‘settings’ of your Android, then locate the section of “Notices”. Once inside you access “Notification History” and you just need to press the switch for the history to be activated. And if you had already activated it, you will find the list of notifications from the last 24 hours. The history records so far, a full day. Remember.
- We enter ‘Settings’.
- Let’s go to ‘Notifications’.
- From there to “Notification History”.
- We activate it and notifications from the last 24 hours will be automatically saved and displayed.
Hands down the most useful feature Android has given my thick, clumsy fingers. No more losing information to be so clumsy.
