How to Check Notification History on Android

Jul. 18, 2024

Some notifications are annoying, and we have all, at some point, tried fiercely swiping them and accidentally dismissed an important notification. But what if we told you there’s a way you can check the notification’s content and go to that notification location on your Android phone? Here’s how to check Notification History on Android, a hidden feature that has been present since Android 12.

Turn on Notification History on Android

Notification History on Android isn’t enabled by default. It needs to be manually enabled to start storing the history. The feature can be enabled by following these steps.

Notification history can be found on all Android 12+ devices. There are two ways you can access and view your notification history on most Android phones.

The most common way of checking Notification history is by going to Settings. Here’s how to quickly access your notification history.

Android has a clever trick to access the history feature in a flash and avoid getting lost in the Settings app.

You can also long-press on the notification to go to the Notification settings for the app. When it comes to managing notifications, Android is second to none, but it’s a topic for another article.

If you own a Samsung phone, the process of accessing the notification history is slightly different from stock Android. Here’s how you turn on and check notification history on a Samsung device running One UI.

If you no longer want your phone to store notification history, you can disable it by following these steps.

Did you know that you can also use the feature to look up adeleted WhatsApp message? Pretty cool. What are your thoughts on the Notification history feature? Let us know in the comments below.