View Old notifications in Android : Notifications in Android Let us know New incoming messages, Alarms, Calender events, and on going events like Downloads. Whenever you get a notification it appears in the Notification shade ( AKA status bar). It is not uncommon that sometimes we accidentally tap on the “dismiss” icon to clear all the notifications & later trying check what we missed. Sometimes while dismissing the notifications we might get a glimpse of an important notification we haven’t read and then we start wondering from which app that notification is from?
There’s a way we can access the accidentally dismissed notifications. Some times we may want to view the old notification history on our android phones and this method works for that too.
Note: This method Works Only For Android Users with Jelly Bean, Kitkat or Lollipop.
How To View Old notifications In Android:
- Go to your android Homescreen and tap on the “All Apps” icon in the tray.
- Switch to Widgets tab in the top , Find “settings shortcut”( a gear icon). Now Tap and hold it to place it in the homescreen.
- Now from the options scroll down and select “Notifications”.
Now Tap on the icon you placed on the homescreen whenever you want to access the old / dismissed notifications from your notification history. From the Notification history you can directly jump to App info for an app.
Thank you uday krk..
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thanx for the wonderful post above.
helped to do so. :)
No settings widget on my Galaxy S5 ribbing lollipop.
As far as i know, there will be a widget “SETTINGS Shortcut”. Tap on that to Place it on the Homescreen and you will be prompted to select the shorcut. So, Select “Notifications Log” in that.
Hope this Helps.
Thank you for replying (and ribbing = running). There really is no such widget. I tried two play store settings widget solutions, but neither of them had the notifications option.
Fortunately i did find a solution. There’s an app called Notification History [4.3+] by Tiger-Workshop. It doesn’t require a lot of questionable permissions like comparable apps. Just install it and open the app and you instantly see your notification history even from before you installed the app :-)