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Get back notifications you swiped away

Notification history, step by step on Samsung and Pixel phones.

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Why it helps

Swiped away a message before reading it? With history on, your phone keeps a list of the last 24 hours of notifications.

What you'll notice

You can open a list of every notification from the past day, including the ones you dismissed.

How to set it up

Pick your phone.

Samsung Galaxy

  1. Settings
  2. Notifications
  3. Advanced settings
  4. Notification history
  1. Tap "Advanced settings".
  2. Tap "Notification history" and turn it on.

Based on reports from owners and the tech press. We have not yet checked it on a phone ourselves.

Google Pixel

  1. Settings
  2. Notifications
  3. Notification history
  1. Tap "Notification history".
  2. Turn on "Use notification history".

Needs Android 11 or later.

Taken from the phone maker's own help pages.

Other Android phones

  1. Settings
  2. Notifications
  3. Notification history
  1. Tap "Notification history".
  2. Turn on "Use notification history".

Needs Android 11 or later.

Based on reports from owners and the tech press. We have not yet checked it on a phone ourselves.

How to undo it

Turn notification history off in the same screen.

Labels can differ. Menu names and their order vary between models and can change with a system update. If a step doesn't match your phone, search Settings for the feature name or one of its other names: Notification log, Dismissed notifications.

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