Add a "Clear All Notifications" button

Servinformatica · July 7, 2026, 11:35am

Hi everyone,

First of all, thank you for the great work on Zammad.

I would like to suggest a small usability improvement for the notification center.

Currently, the “Mark all as read” action is very useful, but it only changes the notification status to read . All notifications remain in the list, so if you’ve accumulated hundreds of them over time (400–500 in my case), the only way to clean up the notification center is to click the X on each notification individually, which can take a very long time.

It would be great to have two separate actions:

Mark all as read – Keep the current behavior.
Clear all notifications – Remove all notifications from the list, including those already marked as read.

This would make it much easier to keep the notification center clean without affecting the existing workflow.

Would anyone else find this useful?

tekgecko · July 8, 2026, 2:38pm

+1 for me this would be very useful.

Sarah · July 10, 2026, 7:14am

1 from my side too!!!

tvm · July 10, 2026, 1:30pm

You just earned a +1 from me too

bialaps · July 27, 2026, 11:14am

We‘ve heared you and added something for this to the backlog. Stay tuned

github.com/zammad/zammad

Add "Clear all notifications" action to notification center

opened 09:41AM - 27 Jul 26 UTC

YetAnotherGerrit

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As an **Agent**, I want to clear all notifications from the notification center …in one action so that I can efficiently manage a large number of accumulated notifications without manually removing each one. ## Acceptance criteria - Add a new action button labeled **"Clear all notifications"** next to the existing **"Mark all as read"** button in the notification center. - The **"Clear all notifications"** action must remove **all** notifications from the list, regardless of their read/unread status. - The **"Mark all as read"** action must retain its current behavior (only marking notifications as read without removing them). - A confirmation dialog must appear before executing the **"Clear all notifications"** action to prevent accidental data loss. - The behavior of the **"Clear all notifications"** action must match the behavior of individually clearing notifications (e.g., permanent deletion). - The notification center must remain fully functional after either action is performed. ## Background information Currently, the notification center allows users to mark all notifications as read, but it does not provide a way to remove them in bulk. For users who have accumulated hundreds of notifications, this means they must manually delete each one by clicking the "X" button, which is time-consuming and inefficient. Introducing a **"Clear all notifications"** action would streamline the process of managing notifications, especially for users who prefer to start with a clean slate. This change would not disrupt existing workflows, as the **"Mark all as read"** functionality would remain unchanged.

MrGeneration · July 27, 2026, 11:17am

For me it personally would help a lot tk get rid of read notifications only. I sometimes have 50 notifications with like 7 unread in between all the way.

byPARSE · August 17, 2026, 1:05pm

Comments:

When you’ve marked the notifications as read a background process cleans
up these entries in your Phoenix drop down menu. It happens in between 10 minutes and 2 hours.

byPARSE

(Documentation pull request is on its way)