Filtering & handling
Noti-Clean captures notifications, applies your rules, and keeps a searchable history — even for items you hide from the system notification shade.
Two kinds of control
- Handling (behavior) — what happens when a notification arrives: keep it in the notification shade, hide it there, or show a Noti-Clean version instead.
- Feed filtering — how you search and narrow the list in the app after notifications are already captured.
Handling runs automatically. Filtering is for finding what you need in your history.
Default behavior
Open Settings → Behavior → Default behavior. There are two sections:
For this device
Applies to notifications captured on the phone or tablet you are holding.
- STORE — keep in Noti-Clean and leave the original in the system notification shade.
- DISMISS — keep in Noti-Clean but remove from the system notification shade (nothing is deleted from your in-app history).
- REPOST — remove the original from the notification shade and show a Noti-Clean notification instead. You can set mirroring priority.
For external notifications
Applies to notifications synced from another linked device (see Pairing & sync).
- STORE — keep in the Noti-Clean in-app history only; no banner in this device's notification shade.
- REPOST — keep in the in-app history and show a local banner on this device.
Specific rules
When the default is not enough, add rules under Settings → Behavior → Specific behaviors. Each rule matches notifications by criteria such as app, category, or text, then applies its own handling.
Example: choose DISMISS for bank OTP alerts on your phone (so they leave the notification shade quickly) while choosing REPOST on your tablet so mirrored copies appear there and you can read the code.
Nothing is silently thrown away
DISMISS and REPOST change what you see in the Android notification shade, not whether Noti-Clean saved the notification. You can open Notifications in the app, search your history, and open full details (content, timing, which device it came from, which rule applied).
How long items stay before automatic cleanup is set under Settings → Retention.
Filter your in-app history
On the Notifications tab, expand the filter panel at the top of the list. You can:
- Search title and body text
- Filter by read/unread, active, or cleared state
- Narrow by app, category, channel, originating device, and more
- Save filter presets and reuse them later
Filtering only changes what you see in the list — it does not delete notifications or change how new ones are handled.
Grouping
Noti-Clean can replace noisy stacks of similar notifications with grouped versions in the notification shade. You can expand a grouped notification to see the original content. Grouping works alongside behavior rules; both are configured from Settings.