Post #2489423

2026-04-09 16:36 UTC

What's the purpose of keeping a history of seen notifications in a database? That shit should be being automatically purged if it needs to exist to show it, after its been dismissed. I wonder if this revelation will trigger a change in how it works, since apple has often tried to do things securely?

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@frongt@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 17:31

If you accidentally dismiss a notification, you can go back in the history to see it. Or if you dismiss a message notification that you want to respond to later. Or if a notification keeps popping up and disappearing and you want to investigate.

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@XeroxCool@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 17:33

My android shows a history of notifications. Not sure what the retention period is. It does add conveniece by allowing me to check dismissed notifications. It allows some monitoring about the type, content, and frequency of notifications as well as control to block them. It certainly now appears the convenience isn't worth the loss of privacy, though.

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@Fondots@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 18:21

Once in a while I get a notification that, for one reason or another, doesn't actually bring me to the content it was supposed to link to and instead brings me to the main page of an app, and sometimes it's difficult or impossible to find where the link was supposed to go But going in through the notification history, the second try usually takes me where it was supposed to go

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@bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 17:15

Control.

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@sturmblast@lemmy.world 2026-04-09 17:36

Did you read the headline?

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