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Clean up old captured notifications safely

Clean up old captured notifications safely.

Find it: Settings > Track Finance Notifications

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Worked examples use sample data, not your account. Reference screenshots show the current app controls in a Windows preview; their example amounts may differ from this lesson. Android system prompts vary by device.

Step 1

Find Cleanup in Track Finance Notifications

  1. Scroll to Cleanup
  2. Read the description before tapping

Open Track Finance Notifications and scroll to Cleanup.

Its description says it removes captured finance notifications older than seven days. Saved transactions are not affected.

Step 2

The information button explains the cutoff

  1. Open the information beside Cleanup
  2. OK only closes this explanation

The information button opens this real Cleanup explanation.

OK closes the explanation. Opening or closing this dialog does not run cleanup.

Step 3

Review needed old captures first

  1. Old pending captures are also removed
  2. Save needed details before cleanup

The age cutoff applies to pending captures as well as ones already handled.

Review and save any needed old message first. Cleanup does not preserve an old capture just because it was still pending.

Step 4

Clean up old notifications acts immediately

  1. Tap only when you are ready
  2. There is no cleanup confirmation

Clean up old notifications starts the operation immediately. There is no confirmation dialog.

This demonstration uses only a guarded in-memory database, never a real user's captures.

Step 5

Only the old captures are removed

  1. Synthetic ages: 14, 8, 6 and 0 days
  2. The 6-day and new captures remain

The isolated test starts with captures aged fourteen days, eight days, six days and now.

The real handler removes the first two. The six-day and new captures remain.

Step 6

Cleanup is not Delete transactions

  1. Saved ledger and categories stay unchanged
  2. Learned preference rows are not reset

The saved ledger, its category, note and amount remain unchanged.

Cleanup also leaves the stored learned-category preferences alone. Reset learned categories is a different action.

Step 7

Keep the capture inbox and ledger separate

  1. Review first, clean old captures when ready
  2. Cloud and Android tray actions are separate

Use cleanup for old captured-message records, not for deleting saved expenses.

It is not Android notification-tray cleanup or cloud AI-data deletion. Keep those separate choices.

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