I saw a note the other day about installing a driver and I have no idea what this was about. I did not do anything to make the driver install so I am worried that it was a virus or malware. This is really annoying since I am computer savvy and understand how dangerous this could be for something to install without my knowledge or initiation. Why oh why there is not way to go back and look at a notification log I will never understand. What is the point of "notifications" when they are only present for a moment before disappearing forever?
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I saw a note the other day about installing a driver and I have no idea what this was about. I did not do anything to make the driver install so I am worried that it was a virus or malware. This is really annoying since I am computer savvy and understand how dangerous this could be for something to install without my knowledge or initiation. Why oh why there is not way to go back and look at a notification log I will never understand. What is the point of "notifications" when they are only present for a moment before disappearing forever?
Hello and thanks for responding. Thing is that, by just tapping on a notification, is being cleared automatically. That's why I need to find the history of my previous notifications
This is not a rumor: the notification history is a true feature from Android 4.3, although they don't make any mention of it in their What's New page.
The following steps will allow you to take advantage from the Notification History in a vanilla Android Jelly Bean 4.3:
- Go to your app drawer, then tap the Widgets tab. Scroll until you reach Settings shortcut (1x1) widget.
- Drag and drop this widget to your home screen.
- You'll see a screen where you can select the type of settings this shortcut will open. Select Notifications.
- The shortcut Notifications will be in your home screen, tap it.
- The screen Notifications shows the notification history we are talking about. In this screen currently active notifications appear in full intensity, while dismissed ones are dimmed.
- Tapping in each notification from this screen will open the corresponding App info screen, where you'll be able to toggle the option Show notifications as you wish.
- Remember: if you turn off notifications for an app, its icon will disappear from the status bar, all its notifications will be dimmed in the Notification history screen, and you may miss important notifications about this app from now on. Only do this if you are completely sure.
A few popular devices like Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, LG V20 completely removed Android's default Notification Log.
If your device has no Settings shortcut in Widgets, you need to use third-party apps like Notification History Log.
This is a free app which will store all your notifications locally. Here are the features of this application:
- Default Notification Log (If supported)
- Advanced Notification History
- Unlimited Notification Log
- Blacklist apps to exclude from Log
- Search Notifications
- Swipe to Delete Single Notification
- Clear All Notifications at once
The paid Pro version has Export/Backup and Advanced Filters if you need.
PS: I'm the developer of this application. You can find more details on my blog.
Hi all,
Is there a way to view old notifications on Google's Android (on Pixel)?
Or are they deleted after they are no longer visible?
I don't have to see all of them, but sometimes a notification is accidentally swiped away...
Is there a way to see the most recent notifications?
tldr; No there's not.
The action center is the same as found on the Microsoft Phones running Windows 10 Mobile. These actions (notifications) are meant to be displayed to the user until they take action. There are two ways a user can interact with an action:
- Dismiss the notification (clears the action)
- Select the notification (respond to the action)
Once one of these interactions takes place, the notification and therefore the action is no longer displayed. No history is maintained of these notifications and cannot be retrieved. This is done on purpose as that history could (and most likely would) become very large.
If you are worried that the notification has system-wide consequences it could be worth looking into the System logs instead; here separate messages about system events are stored.
Update: It appears that some applications will additionally add events into the event viewer. This can be done by:
- Open Event Viewer
- Expand Applications and Services Logs
- Drill down to the app or service you are interested in, e.g. for Windows Defender you might go to:
Microsoft -> Windows -> Windows Defender -> Operationallog. - Review the log and look for the notification you were interested in.
This is NOT the notification history, but additional information provided by the application and as such, there's no guarantee that the notification was logged. It also requires that a user knows which application whose notification they're looking for.
I've found one way to view past notifications, though only very recent ones. In Windows 10, the notifications are stored in \Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Notifications\wpndatabase.db as an SQLite database. E.g. using DB Browser for SQLite, it is possible to view the "Notification" table in it, whose "Payload" column contains the notification texts.
Now, this database doesn't actually seem to store notification history, and dismissed notifications are immediately deleted, but there is a trick: since it is an SQLite database with write-ahead logging (WAL), it may be possible to view an earlier version of the database with the relevant notification.
For example, say I accidentally dismissed a notification without being able to read it. In the aforementioned directory, there exists wpndatabase.db file, last modified two hours ago, and wpndatabase.db-wal file, last modified just now. If I copy both files to a different directory and then open wpndatabase.db in DB Browser for SQLite, I will view the latest version of the database, with the relevant notification gone. However, if I copy only the wpndatabase.db file and open it, I will view the snapshot from two hours ago, before I dismissed the notification, so I will be able to view it.
This is the easiest scenario. What if I dismissed the notification hours/days ago, earlier than wpndatabase.db last modified time? Then this means changes will have been incorporated into the database file and it is not possible to view that notification anymore. Conversely, what if both the arrival and dismissal of the notification happened later than wpndatabase.db last modified time? Then the wpndatabase.db file alone will not have it, but it should still be contained in the log at wpndatabase.db-wal. So you need to apply only the first part of the log to the database, before the deletion. I haven't looked at how to do this or if it is easily doable just using DB Browser for SQLite, but I am sure it is in principle possible to do since the .db-wal file is just a log of changes.