A conversation with Matías Duarte, one of the designers of Android, about how notifications grew from an idea to a relentless buzz.

When you are on Android 11 DP2 and you swipe down your notification area, you’ll see a new option to the bottom left called “History.” In previous builds of Android, that said “Manage ...

How to enable your Android notification history on Android 11. Before you can begin using Android 11's Notification history, you need to turn it on. 1. Open the Settings app and tap Notifications. 2.

In Android 11 DP2, when you swipe down the notification drawer, there’s a link at the bottom that says History or Manage (it spontaneously changed for us).Tapping History takes you to a new ...

Do you use notification history on your Android phone or tablet? 1089 votes. Yes, all the time. 54 % Sometimes, only if I remember to enable it. 13 % I didn't know this existed! 21 % ...

Android is a pretty mature operating system, so it’s not all that often that big new features arrive. But back in 2020, Google added notification history to Android as a very welcome and almost ...

Presuming your notification history is enabled by default in Android 12, checking it out is really simple. All you have to do is scroll to the end of your unread notifications.

Explore Android's ongoing evolution with this visual timeline of versions, starting B.C. (Before Cupcake) and going all the way to 2025's Android 16 release. What a long, strange trip it’s been ...

Even by dismissing notifications and checking them later in your notification history, you can easily lose control of notifications. Out of the box, our Android phones are set up with minimal ...

A notification history gives you a chance to check out all those notifications later on, without feeling the pressure to do it. In any case, you can easily enable this feature on Android.