An app called Pinnit helps you look through notifications that you missed with its notifications history feature and also lets you create custom notifications.

Notifications can help keep you on task, but they can also be distracting. If you need a break on Android, here's how settings like 'Do Not Disturb' can help.

Chrome for Android is now testing a replacement to the snackbar that uses top banner notifications.

To that end, the company disabled it for apps that serve news and entertainment content. Apple also began italicizing the font of summarized text in the notification banner so that it stands out.

Once you enter the Settings, located the “Apps & Notifications” options, or just “Notifications”, as it may be presented on some other devices.

If you accidentally swiped away all notifications, there's a way to look at your notification history on Android. You do need to turn it on first, though.

But all of Android's notification controls come after the fact. When you install an app, it gets permission to send notifications by default. That's it.

How to change notification sounds for text messages When your messages come through, you want the notification to become loud, clear, and distinctive.