Your phone’s notifications show you app messages at a glance. Swiping them away is super satisfying, making you feel as if you ticked off items on your to-do list. But your phone can get inundated with messages if you forget to check it regularly. The number of notifications can get so overwhelming that you might dismiss them without reading. You could get overzealous while clearing up your phone’s notification center and miss an important update.
You can recover your lost messages if the notification history is on. We show you how to do it on a stock Android and One UI running on one of the top Samsung Galaxy phones.
Some smartphone makers deactivate notification history by default. If notifications are turned off on your Android phone, you can easily activate it.
You can now dismiss any of your notifications and have your notification history to fall back on.
Samsung uses a different Android skin called One UI. Because of this, the steps to activate and check your notification history differ slightly on Samsung phones.
Notification history shows your alerts chronologically, with the most recent at the top. However, the system doesn’t offer a way to place a notification history shortcut on the home screen for easy access.
Notification history doesn’t come with biometric protection, so anyone with access to your phone can hop into Settings and check the last 24 hours of your notification history. Sometimes, you may not want the system to save confidential notifications from apps like Venmo or Telegram. You need to deactivate the function entirely because there is no way to turn off notification history for individual apps.
Doing this deletes all your notification history. You can re-activate it to keep your history again, but the system doesn’t restore your current notification history.
Instead of dismissing notifications, snooze alerts and receive them at a more convenient time. After you activate notification snoozing from your Android phone’s settings menu, you’ll see a clock icon beside each notification. You can tap it to snooze notifications for up to two hours.
You can retrieve lost notifications with a few taps if you accidentally dismissed them, so you won’t miss important messages. The only catch is that you need to keep the notification history on. If you want to get more work done on your phone, try these productivity apps to help you focus.
Maybe if we start telling people the brain is an app they will start using it!
