I didn’t really notice till now, and searching around I see lots of complaints in various communities for different apps.

Turns out it’s intended behavior in Android 14. The only persistent thing about it is that they don’t disappear when you hit “clear all”, which is something I never do because I dismiss the ones I need to instead of nuking everything.

Feels like a big step backwards and I don’t understand the reasoning behind it. It was always possible to dismiss persistent ones if we really needed to (long tap etc)

Is there any workaround to get it back?

Unnecessary backstory:

I use a notification creation app to leave important TODOs as pinned notifications so I see them when I check my phone.

I’ve missed some and I thought I was setting them wrong. Turns out the notifications can be dismissed accidentally, making the app useless.

My use case isn’t that important, I can find some other workflow. But there are other more important apps like blood sugar monitors and home security/alert apps that use persistent notifs for functionality.

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    11 months ago

    I’m glad my dexcom app has a persistent notification. I can check my blood sugar and rate of change with a quick swipe down rather than launching the app

    Or maybe I misunderstood what OP is talking about

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      11 months ago

      Yep stuff like that

      I didn’t use persistent notifications much, past my little Todo thing, but I know there are a lot of apps that work like that.

      If you’ve updated already, do those notifications disappear? Worth checking if you haven’t yet. Otherwise hopefully your Dexcom app adds a quick settings tile or something.

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        11 months ago

        I’m still on 13. (S22+)

        So hopefully there is a good workaround once Samsung rolls out the next update.

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        11 months ago

        It’s just too easy to accidentally dismiss one when trying to dismiss another