what to know
- Swipe up from the center of your iPhone's lock screen to pull up Notification Center.
- Unlocked iPhone: Swipe down from the upper left corner of the screen.
- Deleted notifications cannot be recalled.
This article explains how to find and interact with old notifications on iPhone.
Notifications that recently popped up on the iPhone lock screen should remain visible for a while. Eventually, however, they will disappear or be replaced by newer ones. If you happen to miss any notifications, you can easily recall them.
Regardless of whether you allow notifications to appear on a locked iPhone, trying to view old (but still active) notifications on your iPhone's lock screen uses the same steps.
If your iPhone screen is off, tap the screen or, depending on which iPhone you have, press the Power button or the Home button to turn it on.
Swipe up from the center of your iPhone's lock screen to bring up your notification list. If there are no notifications, you will see "No earlier notifications" appear.
Depending on the number of pending notifications, you may see all notifications, or they may be organized into groups based on the application that generated them.
Tap a notification (e.g. text) to open the connected app.
If your iPhone is locked, you must unlock it using Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode to continue.
Swiping left on a notification (or group of notifications) pulls up the Options and Clear/Clear All buttons.
Click "Options" to pull up a small menu to adjust the notification settings for the app that issued the notification. If desired, you can use the menu to mute or turn off notifications for an app.
Click Clear or Clear All (depending on whether there are one or more notifications in a category) to remove notifications from your organization's group.
This action will remove existing notifications from the lock screen until new notifications appear, but will not affect anything within the app itself. It also does not affect notification badges displayed on app icons.
If you want to delete all current notifications at once, tap the "X" (next to Notification Center) and then tap " Clear All Notifications." Like "Clear All," this will remove existing notifications from your iPhone's lock screen.
To see notifications when your phone isn't on the lock screen, swipe down from the top left corner of the screen. This will display your iPhone's lock screen (although it won't actually lock your phone).
The (unlocked) lock screen will display any available notifications, which will be organized by app.
If there are no notifications to view, the screen will display "No Older Notifications."
You can interact with any available notifications in the same way as above.
Unfortunately, once you delete notifications, you can't view them. If you delete, clear, or open one of these, it will no longer appear on your iPhone's lock screen, and there's no way to get it back.
If the notifications have not been removed and are not visible when you first turn on your iPhone screen, you should be able to view them by following the same steps above.
FAQTo turn off notifications on your iPhone, open the Settings app and tap Notifications . Click on any app for which you want to disable notifications, then turn off Allow notifications . To temporarily disable notifications, put your iPhone into Do Not Disturb mode.
If you don't receive notifications about text messages on your iPhone, check your notification permissions. Open Settings and tap Notifications , then scroll down and tap Messages . Make sure "Allow Notifications" is turned on (green).
You will enable Instagram notifications through Settings . Open Settings, tap Notifications, then tap Instagram . Turn on Allow notifications .
