In this guide

Open Notification history
Turn on Use notification history
Read your history
If you do not see this option
If this does not work
Good to know
Sources

Short answer

Open Settings, tap Notifications, then Notification history, and turn on Use notification history. It was off on our Pixel. From then on, alerts from the last 24 hours are listed there, grouped by app, including ones you swiped away.

Device: Android
Shown on: Google Pixel 10a, Android 17 (build CP3A.260905.009)
App: Settings
Path: Settings › Notifications › Notification history
Real screenshots: 3 of 3 steps
Checked: October 2026
Sources: 2 official, linked below

Step by step

Open Notification history
Open Settings and tap Notifications. Tap Notification history: Show recent and snoozed notifications.
Done
Turn on Use notification history
On ours it was off, and the page said Notification history turned off. Tap the switch.
Done
Read your history
New alerts appear under Last 24 hours, grouped by app. Tap a group to open or close it. Ours shows three System UI alerts from a screen recording.
Done

If you do not see this option

History is empty? It only keeps notifications that arrive after you turn it on. We switched it on, made a screen recording, and its alerts then appeared.
Looking for older alerts? The list covers the last 24 hours.

If this does not work

An app's alerts never appear here? If the app's notifications are off, nothing is sent at all: see the Pixel notifications checklist below.
Alert gone after you tapped it? Tapping opens the app. Come back to Notification history to see the list again.

About this guide

Swiped a notification away by mistake? Notification history keeps a list, but only once you have switched it on. It cannot show alerts from before that.

The screenshots are from our Google Pixel 10a with Android 17 (build CP3A.260905.009), in Dark mode. We switched it on for the pictures and back off afterwards.