Dismissing All Notifications

For years, many users praised the more robust and sophisticated notification system on Android, but with much power also came much clutter. Apple made some good strides in improving its notification system a couple of years back, and still managed to keep it fairly clean.

Apple also introduced one small feature that Android is still catching up on — the ability to dismiss all notifications with a single tap. In fact, Apple had this despite the fact that there aren’t really any “persistent” notifications in iOS — those that remain stuck on your screen that you can’t as easily get rid of. Android has these, making the need for a “clear all” option even more necessary, and yet that’s only coming in Android 11, and even that’s a “maybe” since reports have suggested that it’s disappeared from the most recent developer previews.