You know how it is — you unlock your iPhone with Touch ID so fast that you miss some important Notifications. You swipe down from the top of your iOS device’s screen to see what you missed and — ugh — you realize that your Notifications are sorted by app. How will you ever figure out which new Notification you missed?
Luckily, there’s a fairly simple way to get your iPhone and iPad to list your Notifications in date order, assuring you never miss one again.
Here’s how.
Tap open your Settings app, and navigate to Notifications.
There are two settings that manage how you see them: Sort Order and Group by App.
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Toggle Group by App to OFF with a tap, and then tap Sort Order. Choose Recent to sort them in reverse chronological order.
Exit Settings and swipe down from the top of your device’s screen. You’ll now see all your Notifications in order from newest to oldest. Hooray!
You can still Group by App with a Recent sort order, but you’ll still have to remember which app notified you and then find it in the list. Keeping Sort as Recent and Notifications not grouped per app is the best way, in my opinion, to finding the most recent items, no matter what app sent them along.
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
2 responses to “Pro Tip: How to sort iOS Notifications by date”
Or you can just glance at the time of the notification to the right in Notification Center.
Sure, but only if you can see what app sent the Notification. I like putting it all in date order for that reason.