As notifications stack up on theLock Screenand inNotification Centerwhile you’re away, you might find yourself coming back to a colorful mess of missed notifications.
iOS lets you clear notifications for individual apps in one fell swoop, but iOS developersmokin1337sought to clear all missed notifications in their entirety from the aforementioned interfaces with a single gesture. Consequently, a freejailbreak tweakdubbedNPurgewas conceived.
With NPurge, users can simply pull down while on the Lock Screen or in Notification Center and a new prompt will appear saying that you can continue pulling to clear all missed notifications.
After reaching the threshold, the Lock Screen and Notification Center are completely purged of all and any missed notifications. We’ll that was easy!
Once installed, NPurge adds a few new options to a dedicated preference pane located in the Settings app:
Here, users will be able to:
In our testing, it would appear that all options take effect on the fly without the need to respring your device.
While not everyone is going to have a use for a tweak like NPurge, the fact that it’s available for those who want it is a testament to why jailbreaking exists in the first place — to be able to do things you can’t do on a stock handset.
If you’re interested in giving NPurge a try, then you maydownload it for free from the iDeviceHacked repositoryvia your favorite package manager app. The tweak supportsjailbrokeniOS 11, 12, 13, and 14 devices.
Those who aren’t already taking full advantage of the iDeviceHacked repository can add it to their preferred package manager app by using the URL provided below:
Do you think NPurge will come in handy after a long while of letting the missed notifications rack up? Let us know in the comments section down below.
