When multiple notifications appear, they flood your Action Center every time. In this post, we will show you how to delete one or all old notifications in the Windows Action Center.
Notification pop-ups on the screen of your computer system are a very common sight. One little box rising to inform you about new software updates, or an email message is sometimes useful but sometimes immensely distracting.
Windows Notifications bring in important information, which keeps you productive. On the other hand, they are disturbing, and most of the time, they disappear before we actually read and act on it. Then comes the Action Center on Windows, a single point for conveniently managing and responding to your notifications.
Collecting notifications and alerts is the key role of the Action Centre. It makes it easier for the user to find old notifications and take appropriate action. But again, receiving a barrage of notifications is not at all welcomed. This is even truer when users have multiple apps sending out notifications every time something happens, which ultimately floods into your action center. Hold on, here’s some good news You can delete old notifications in the action center.
Delete old notifications in Action Center in Windows 11/10
Let us walk through how to delete old notifications in the action center. There are four different ways to achieve this. Those are as follows:
- Delete notifications one at a time
- Clear all notifications from specific applications
- Clear all notifications in one click
- Clear all notifications with the keyboard.
Let’s look at each of these options in detail.
1] Delete notifications one at a time
To delete notifications one at a time, click the Action Center icon on the taskbar, now point at a notification and hit the pop-up delete icon.
This option is great when users do not wish to delete all the notifications but only the unwanted ones. This works in Windows 11 and Windows 10.
2] Clear all notifications from specific applications
Action Centre groups notifications under different heads based on the application, like Mail, Google Chrome, and SupportAssist. To delete all notifications from specific applications, click Action Center icon on the taskbar, point at a notification from the application and hit the pop-up delete icon.
This option is useful when users want to completely delete old notifications from one or more applications that send many notifications which are not that useful. This works in Windows 11 and Windows 10.
3] Clear all notifications in one click
Tap on the Action Center icon on the taskbar, and then click Clear All Notification icon on the right-down corner in the ACTION CENTER.
When users know they do not need the cluttered notification in the Action Centre and wish to clear it, they can use Clear All Notifications option to clear off all notifications in one go in Windows 10.
In Windows 11, you will see the Clear all button in the top right corner.
4] Clear all notifications with the keyboard
In Windows 10, it is possible to clear all notifications of the Action Center notifications with the keyboard. Follow the next steps to achieve the same.
- Open Action Center with WinKey + A
- Set Focus on Clear All Notifications Shift + Tab. (Note: You may have to press Shift+Tab more than once to set focus on clear all notifications.
- Hit Space to clear all notifications.
- To check if the notifications have been cleared, press WinKey + A once again.
Clear up your Action Center
With these tips, you can clear the unwanted notifications in your Action Center and keep it better organized!
Where to see the old Notifications in Windows?
Click on the See more link in the Notification Center and see if you can see your old message. Apart from this, as far as I know, there is no way to view past notifications in the Action Center. If you dismiss a notification or select the notification, as a response, they will just get deleted.
