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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
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If you accidentally dismiss a notification, you can go back in the history to see it. Or if you dismiss a message notification that you want to respond to later. Or if a notification keeps popping up and disappearing and you want to investigate.
I just checked if there were any controls for this on Android. As far as I could tell, you can only toggle it on/off.
Off clears the history, but I wish we could do more than all or nothing. I don't need a history of more than a week at most.
I have it turned on. It only shows the last 24 hours.
I just checked and it seems to be off by default in e OS, another W
Oh I honestly didnt understand there's a perpetual database you can go back and look at, I didnt even know i had one on android, I just turned that off.
I understood it as they need a database to hold the notifications you should be shown and it gets purged eventually kinda thing.
As a history it makes sense, and that its something that can leak.
Also if you leave it on, uninstalling an app should definitely purge its history.
that part can just happen in volatile memory
TIL I have a "notification history" toggle setting
The poor FBI has kinda triggered a Streisand effect. We used this thing no one knows about to win a case and shit now they know about it and are turning it off!