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    5 hours ago

    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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      5 hours ago

      I just checked if there were any controls for this on Android. As far as I could tell, you can only toggle it on/off.

      Off clears the history, but I wish we could do more than all or nothing. I don’t need a history of more than a week at most.

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      Oh I honestly didnt understand there’s a perpetual database you can go back and look at, I didnt even know i had one on android, I just turned that off.

      I understood it as they need a database to hold the notifications you should be shown and it gets purged eventually kinda thing.

      As a history it makes sense, and that its something that can leak.

      Also if you leave it on, uninstalling an app should definitely purge its history.