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The Notifications List

At the top of the Action Center, you’ll find the notifications from all the
apps you’ve permitted to alert you, grouped by app—the first lines of all
your tweets, emails, antivirus-software whines, Microsoft Store updates,

weather warnings, calendar alarms, and so on. Each is date-stamped.

Here’s the fun you can have with these things:

Tap the at far right to read more about it. For example, you
can read the full body of a tweet, or read the rest of an email’s
subject line. Basically, you get to read beyond the first line of

whatever it is. Often, the button reveals useful buttons like
Launch or Reply.

Click an item to open the relevant app. For example, click an
appointment listed there to open its information panel in Calendar.
Click the name of a software update to open the Microsoft Store

program to read about it and download it. Click a message’s name
to open Mail, where you can read the entire message.

Clear notifications. You can delete one message at a time (click

the , or swipe or drag to the right); delete all of one app’s
notifications at a time (point to the app’s name, click the ); or

clear all the current messages at once (hit “Clear all notifications”
at the bottom of the column). In all cases, you’re not erasing
anything meaningful—only dismissing the notification.

Tip

If you have no interest in a certain app’s notifications showing up here, you can make them stop
appearing for good, as described on Figure 2-27.

The Quick Action Tiles

Below the list of notifications, another useful panel appears: the Quick
Action tiles. These are one-touch buttons for important functions. Clearly,