View notifications

Find your notifications

Apps send you notifications to let you know about new messages, calendar events, and alarms.

You can check your notifications from a few places:

If you get multiple notifications from an app, they'll be grouped together. You can swipe down to view more details.

Some important notifications will pop up over your current app so you can take action. For example, if you get a call while you're watching a video, a notification will appear so you can answer or ignore the call.

If an app icon has a notification badge, you can touch & hold it to see the most recent notification:

Use notifications on your lock screen

Check for notifications
If you haven’t seen activity for a while, lift, tap, or move the phone sideways.
Peek at contents
Tap an icon to preview the notification.
Change how these notifications look or work
For more privacy, you can hide sleep mode notification content and show only icons, or hide all notifications in sleep mode. Learn how to change these Settings.

If you touched your phone to wake it but haven't unlocked it yet, you can do more than just peek at notifications. You can respond, open apps, and dismiss notifications.

Use notifications when phone is unlocked or on awake lock screen

To see your notifications when your phone is unlocked, swipe the status bar down on any screen.

Respond from a notification

Many notifications include actions at the bottom that let you complete common tasks without opening the full app. If you have several notifications, these actions are hidden. When you see down arrow, tap it to reveal actions like Reply, Archive, and more.

If you're on the lock screen and Safe reply is on, unlock your phone to continue the action.

Open the app that sent the notification

From the status bar:

  • Swipe down from the top of the screen and tap the notification to open its app.
  • Instead of opening apps in full screen from notifications, you can set them to open in freeform windows for multi-tasking. Learn more.

From the awake lock screen:

Tap the notification twice and enter your PIN, pattern, or password to unlock your screen and open the app.

Snooze a notification

Tap down arrow. Then tap and select a duration to snooze notifications. To snooze notifications, first turn on snoozing.

Dismiss notifications

To dismiss one notification, swipe it sideways. Some notifications, like voicemails, require an action and cannot be dismissed.

To dismiss all of them, swipe to the end of your notifications and tap Clear all.

See previously viewed notifications

After you clear or snooze notifications, you can go to your notification history to view them again.

To set it up:

  1. Go to Settings > Notifications.
  2. Tap Notification history.
  3. Turn Use notification history on .

To see the history, go to Settings > Notifications > Notification history.

Control how and when apps send notifications

Use Do Not Disturb to silence all notifications when you don’t want interruptions.

Touch & hold a notification to customize that app's notifications. Then you can: