In Android 7.0 Nougat, tapping a notification will open the parent app, but you can also swipe right to left to close a notification. Step 1: Swipe down from the top to expand the Notification Shade.

As of Android 4.3 and up, there's an easy way to find out. By creating a shortcut to the notifications section of Settings, you can open up a list of every notification you've received. Here's how: ...

You can see old notifications on an Android that you've previously cleared via the device's Notification Log. You can only access your Notification Log after you activate it through your Android ...

Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than two weeks old. This change is enabled starting in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2. This will reduce how annoying it is to boot up ...

Android has a feature called "Notification history" that lets you view all your notifications for the past 24 hours. But you'll need to turn the feature on before you can recover lost notifications.