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Cannot clear anything from notification centre in iOS9

Since the iOS 9 update I cannot clear any email notifications from the slide down notification centre if I have already read them, can anyone help? The clear button does nothing!

iPhone 5s, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 18, 2015 1:51 AM

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Posted on Sep 18, 2015 3:23 AM

I also have this problem on my iPhone 6.

It only seems to affect emails, all other notifications clear ok. My notifications in the slide down centre are ordered by day, so i ended up with a week's worth of email notifications which wouldn't clear.

I have managed to clear them by switching off email notifications in the slide down centre, then changing the ordering to 'Manual'. This seems to clear out all old notifs, and since i've switched off email notifs it doesn't attempt to re-add them in the new order.

I'm going to keep them switched off in the notifs centre as i get so many it's just as easy to open the mail app to see what i have.

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May 4, 2016 11:13 AM in response to madhurjaffrey

I just noticed the same problem on my iPhone5 with iOS 9.3.1 - except the app was Podcast leaving 100's of "New episode is available for podcast {xyz}"


Pressing the X and Clear did nothing - but I did notice that all of the Timestamp entries for each notification began to blink rapidly. Plus the scroll up/down feature became very very slow until I closed the notification menu.


Another thread has a general workaround- which is to toggle the notification settings for "Group By" which has the side effect of clearing the notifications.


https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7250244?tstart=0

Cannot clear anything from notification centre in iOS9

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