You’re checking Android’s notification history all wrong

TL;DR If you want to check your notification history, there’s an overlooked shortcut you should be using.

Tapping on “You’re all caught up” in the notification shade will take you directly to the notification history page.

You’ll need to have notification history toggled on to see your old alerts.

It’s something that’s happened to us all at some point. A notification comes in, and when you go to check it out, you accidentally dismiss it before you meant to. Fortunately, Android has a notification history page where you can see all your recently dismissed and snoozed notifications. Getting to this page only takes a couple of steps, but did you know there’s a much faster way to get there?

If you want to see a recently dismissed notification, the standard way to do so is to open Settings. On the Settings page, you’ll want to locate and tap on the Notifications option. …