Filtering & handling
Noti-Clean intercepts notifications, applies your rules, and keeps a searchable history — even for items you hide from the system shade.
Two kinds of control
- Handling (behavior) — what happens when a notification arrives: keep it in the 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 shade (nothing is deleted from your feed).
- Repost — remove the original from the shade and show a Noti-Clean notification instead. You can set repost priority.
For external notifications
Applies to notifications synced from another linked device (see Pairing & sync).
- Store — keep in the Noti-Clean feed only; no banner in this device's shade.
- Repost — keep in the feed 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: dismiss bank OTP banners on your phone (so they do not linger in the shade) while reposting synced copies on your tablet so you can read the code there.
Nothing is silently thrown away
Dismiss and repost change what you see in the Android shade, not whether Noti-Clean recorded 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 feed
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 dismissed 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 shade. You can expand a grouped notification to see the original content. Grouping works alongside behavior rules; both are configured from Settings.