On iOS 16. If I have notifications, once they are viewed in Notification Centre they disappear so I can’t re-read them again later if they don’t need responding to immediately. I hope I explained this clearly. I’m finding it very frustrating. Is there a way to fix?
iPhone XS
update 2: after system reinstall I see that this is the way system is designed. It means that once the notification is displayed, even if you don’t read it, it will disappear from the visible notifications. To see this notification you have to swipe up from the Lock Screen (or swipe down when device is unlocked and then swipe up) to see the Notification Centre manually.
it sounds ridiculous that you have to remember to check unread notifications later. The whole list of notifications should be visible somewhere all the time to help you keep tracking important messages.
update 2: after system reinstall I see that this is the way system is designed. It means that once the notification is displayed, even if you don’t read it, it will disappear from the visible notifications. To see this notification you have to swipe up from the Lock Screen (or swipe down when device is unlocked and then swipe up) to see the Notification Centre manually.
it sounds ridiculous that you have to remember to check unread notifications later. The whole list of notifications should be visible somewhere all the time to help you keep tracking important messages.
you can review the message by swiping up from just above the bottom of the Lock Screen (Not from so low that you are swiping from the home bar if you have a Face ID phone - from just above the area where the flashlight, focus, and camera icons are).
They may not be gone. When you are on your lock screen, put your finger on the screen about 3/4 of the way down and then swipe up. It should bring up your older notifications. They should be there until you manually clear them out by clicking the X that appears on the right.
You have helped fix my issue. Notifications are visible from Lock Screen when I scroll up from the centre of the screen. But I didn’t know this was the new way of accessing them. So they have been accessible throughout the day. Brilliant. Thank you 😊
Since found out that it also works when you swipe down from unlocked. If you see no notifications, swipe up from centre of that screen and they all magically appear 😀. It soon becomes habit and you will forget you ever did it any other way.
I thought I was experiencing the same issue - I’d view notifications from the locked screen then couldn’t see again. I realized that swiping up from a Lock Screen from about the middle of the screen was the “fix”. If you went too low, you’d just login again (especially with facial recognition). Try it and see if that’s the issue
Okay so I have the same issue but I finally figured it out. First swipe down to what was usually the Notification Center. After you lightly hold and swipe up and all the notifications appear. Just saw all of my notifications from a few days ago to today. Let me know if that helped!
Its awful but I found a workaround - I think I found a way of getting them back, but only works from Lock Screen. If I swipe up from *middle of Lock Screen*, all notifications appear and are back again from an undefined time. If I swipe up from bottom, the phone just unlocks (via FaceID) then there are no visible notifications again has been the phone is unlocked.
Oh sorry, already figured that one out and should’ve mentioned that. It’s annoying that you have to swipe up after swiping down to see all notifications. I just updated to the new iOS version hoping they fixed it but still haven’t.
That's the way notifications have always worked. And, to date, there is no way to change that.
You can let Apple know you'd like to see something different here:
Just fixed it (actually my 1yo son fixed it while playing with my phone). When on the Lock Screen, just swipe up, and all the notifications will show up
I had the same issue, but when the phone is unlocked swipe down from the top of your screen (your Lock Screen layout will appear) and immediately swipe up anywhere on the screen. All unread notification will appear.
Hope that helps
We are talking NOTIFICATIONS by definition, it isn’t a notification if no one sees it or has to go looking for it. I put up post-it’s, each stays up until I handle it, I toss or file it. I do NOT automatically gather them and dump in a drawer.
Even at my limited programming, I really don’t think it would be rocket science to add a “Persistant” option to these notification settings.
Everyone, even Microsoft, knows to leave “View Read/Unread” as an option. Apple totally missed the boat and made this feature a bug by “improving” it into uselessness. It is really BAD tech to say, “This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature”.
I realize everyday how much I miss this when I miss notification of calls missed or app status (darn dead Fitbit). I loved not constantly checking because it is so easy to miss something. The new Apple staff missed the concept 100% or thought “some few people” use it this way and stirred the ant hill with this change.
Reddit is full of it and I hope a fraction of them and you all actually post discontent at Apple.com/feedback, not just here, like I did!
Fingers crossed.
This is exactly my problem too. Notifications seem to disappear after a while, even if they remain unread, no related app accessed, or anything like that.
And yes, this is either a major bug or very weird feature, negating one of the main use cases of the Notifications where I want to keep notifications visible until I get around to deal with them. Now notifications just fade away to be forgotten!
I know that you can swipe up to access the disappeared notifications, but remembering and needing to do this to check whether you have notifications does not make any sense.
I was having the same issue too. Sometimes I could see my notifications but they would disappear just as quickly as they came. The solution for this problem is: swipe up from the center of the Lock Screen and view your notifications. Voila!
iOS 16 notifications disappear from Notification Centre
