How do I retrieve old notifications on my iPad? Old notifications as in 2 to 3 months old.

Diana, which version are you running? Here's a screenshot of that screen (sorry about the size; someday I'll get a photo editing app on my iPad):

That's why I haven't been using banners for important stuff.

I'm starting to think I should go to iOS 11, especially if it has a way to make alerts persistent. I need another calendar app because the Apple calendar's 4 point font is just too stupid for words, but as long as I have an iPhone I'll be stuck with whatever alert/notification options Apple decides to give us. I'm still having a little trouble figuring things out anyway (e.g. can the phone vibrate with alerts?), so I think I'll start with a visit to the genius bar instead of weeks of trial and error when I do upgrade.

I do like my iPhone, but whatever you think about Android, it sure was nice to be able to make my old phone do what made sense to me, not to some software geek.

Thanks. It's depressing, but at least I think I understand what's been going on.

I'm 100% Apple at home, but stuck with an Android phone until recently because it worked so well as an organizer. My new iPhone SE is nice and shiny, and many of the functions are great, but I've already spent $150 on a missed doctor's appointment because it never occurred to me that the notification would vanish because I probably touched the screen while waking it.

Does iOS 11 fix this by allowing you to see the notification history? Or are people referring to an older OS?

Hi litterbuggy. No, it does not. There is no "notification history". Notifications are transient messages, discarded once they are viewed. Note that, in Settings > Notifications, you can make notifications from an app Persistent, so at least you have to interact with them. If they are Temporary, they just evaporate.

Thanks, Diana, I see what you mean now, and that clarifies what I miss about the old phone: the notification didn't go away when I looked at the text or calendar or whatever; it stayed in the notification drop-down until I cleared my notifications. In other words, clearing notifications was a separate operation. For instance, I might read a text but want to wait until later to respond, so I'd leave the notification in place as a sort of to-do list that I could access with a single swipe of the screen.

I guess the only way to do that on the iPhone would be to create another notification...?

I noticed that the text preferences screen lets me set repeated notifications for texts, but that would be annoying for texts I don't need to be reminded of, and doesn't solve the lack of 'persistence' for all the other kinds of notifications I might want.

Anyway, I appreciate all your help with my niggling little complaint, Diana. I'll just have to figure out how to make this system work with my spacey brain, even if it means sticking post-its to the back of the phone. Talk about first world problems!

Slide the top of your screen down, then click all.

They should all be there.

How can you do this in the latest iOS? That option isnt there anymore.

Once you check a notificaion, it is gone. There is no way to retrieve it.

Well this is disappointing.

Oh yes it is. 😉

iOS 10.whatever here and swiping down reveals old notifications just fine.

Spiritfree wrote:

Oh yes it is. 😉

iOS 10.whatever here and swiping down reveals old notifications just fine.

Unless you've tapped on them.

My settings do not include an option to make anything "persistent." I'm not sure why yours do. Maybe we're living in parallel universes.

Maybe we are. Try looking in Settings > Notifications for an app you use, maybe Mail. When you enable Banners, you have the choice of making them Temporary or Persistent.

I'm on iOS 11.1.1. The Alerts on your screen is what I'm calling Persistent. Only the wording has been changed. When you have an Alert, it remains in the Notification Center until you clear it.