How to See the Notification History on Android

In the past, you might have accidentally dismissed all the notifications on your Android phone, which you know is a bit frustrating. Notifications are an essential part of the phone, and even keeps people hooked to the device. If you have received an important message from someone or an alert from any app, you won’t know about it immediately. You must be thinking it will take only a few minutes to check all the apps and see if there is anything important.

Yes, I agree. But, what if you don’t need to do that as there is a way to view the history of notifications on your Android phone. The only thing is this feature is not directly accessible on Android 10. Thankfully, Google will make it much easier for you to check notifications history with Android 11. The “Notification history” feature was spotted in the second developer preview, and it shows a list of all what notifications you’ve recently dismissed.

Notifications can be a great way of keeping up with all your various apps and online services, but it's easy to feel inundated by them. Clearing them away or stopping them is great, but that might mean missing out on important information. If that's the problem you're facing, don't fret. The Android notification log widget can help you figure out what it is you missed, so you can respond appropriately.

HOW TO USE THE ANDROID NOTIFICATION LOG

The Android notification log keeps a record of every notification you've received recently and is the easiest way to quickly find any notifications you wanted to take another look at. Here's how to access it.

1. Long press anywhere on your home screen until the additional menu items appear. Select Widgets. It's typically one of the first options available, but may require some scrolling depending on your device and Android version.

2. Scroll through the widgets menu and look for the Settings option. If you find it, drag it to the home screen and select it.

If you don't, select the Shortcuts option instead. Find the Settings shortcut there, and drag it to your home screen, then select it.

3. Select Notification log from the menu that appears to place a shortcut to your notification log on your Home screen.

4, That shortcut should now link you straight to the Notification log. Select it from your home screen, and you'll be able to see all your past notifications.

If you ever want to access your notification logs again in the future, you can just tap that icon again to go straight to them.

CHECK THE NOTIFICATIONS LOG HISTORY ON ANDROID 11

If you're running the latest version of Android 11, you can check your notification history much more easily. To do so, select Settings > Apps and Notifications > Notification History and toggle it to on.

When turned on, the Notification History will keep track of all your notifications and you can view them at any time.

THIRD PARTY NOTIFICATION LOG ALTERNATIVES

Although the native Android Notification Logs are fully-featured and effective notification viewing tools, there are third-party applications which can do it too. One popular option that is well reviewed is Notification History Log. Here's how to use it:

1. Install Notification History Log from the Play Store and open it.

2. Select your language preference and agree to the terms and conditions.

3. Scroll through the tutorial screens, and when prompted, tap Enable Permission and the toggle the services you want to allow permissions for On, on the next screen.

4. Select Continue.

5. Select Enable for storage permission.

6. To view notifications on the app screen, select Advanced History to display your notifications.

Note: Notification History Log can only log notifications from the point you install the app moving forward, so it cannot recover history notifications you may have dismissed in the past.

Source: lifewire.com