My favorite Android shortcut is a productivity cheat code – and works on older phones [Video]

It’s probably happened to you before: Your phone has received too many notifications, and as you instinctively tap on the “Clear all” button, you realize one or two of those alerts were actually very important. 

If you have a good memory, you’ll know exactly which apps and pathways to dig into to interact with those now-gone notifications. But if you’re like me, you’ll accept defeat, take a breather, and then remember that notification history exists.

Also: How to enable notification history on your Android

To be clear, I’m not actually pitching Android’s “notification history” feature in this story; my colleague Jack Wallen already did a fantastic job breaking it all down, from how it works to setting it up. If you haven’t already turned on the feature — which logs all your notifications over the past 24 hours and automatically resets to preserve local storage — you absolutely should.

Instead, I’d like …