Android is an operating system full of details, settings and hidden tricks. It is very difficult to know all of them to get the most out of it, so today we are going to tell you a hidden fit that very few users know and that is really useful. It’s about a trick to improve your smartphone notifications. It doesn’t change the size or make them smarter, but it does show you a record of them so that you do not lose anything that you discard. You can recover a notification after deleting it.
Any Android user receives dozens or hundreds of notifications every day. Many times it is easy to press the “delete all” button and get rid of notifications in one fell swoop. This has a problem: you can delete notifications that you have not seen.
At some point we have all deleted a notification without seeing it and we We have been left wondering where it came from. Is it an email? A message? A notification from a social network? If you delete it you may have to go through all the applications to find it and you will still be uneasy in case you are missing something.
Well you probably didn’t know it, but Android has a pretty hidden setting that you can configure to have a notification history. In it you can find everything you have deleted so that you are never left wondering again. Activating it is very simple:
- Long press on a free area of the screen
- Access the Widgets and look for ‘Settings’
- Drag it to the home screen
- Choose ‘Notification Log‘ or ‘Log Notifications’
With these simple steps you can have a icon with a shortcut to the notification history. In it you will be able to see all the notifications that have arrived on your mobile and that you have deleted, in order to consult them in case any have not been read.
It’s a very useful setting and that most users are unaware of. The bad news is that It is not available on all Android phones. Only some customization layers allow this shortcut to the settings widget to improve notifications. We recommend you test if your mobile phone has access to it and, if so, activate it to save any inadvertently deleted notifications.