Canceling a Notification

When a user taps a notification and starts the application in the foreground, the application can cancel one or all notifications.

For example, after a user receives an IM from a friend and taps a notification to view the message, the application can cancel the notification.

Available APIs

The table below lists some APIs for canceling notifications. For details about the APIs, see @ohos.notificationManager (NotificationManager).

API Description
cancel(id: number, callback: AsyncCallback<void>): void Cancels a notification.
cancelAll(callback: AsyncCallback<void>): void Cancels all notifications published by the application.

How to Develop

The following describes how to cancel a text notification. This procedure is applicable for canceling other types of notifications.

  1. Import modules.

    import { notificationManager } from '@kit.NotificationKit';
    import { BusinessError } from '@kit.BasicServicesKit';
    import { hilog } from '@kit.PerformanceAnalysisKit';
    
    const TAG: string = '[PublishOperation]';
    const DOMAIN_NUMBER: number = 0xFF00;
    
  2. Publish a notification.

    For details, see Publishing a Text Notification.

  3. Cancel the notification.

     // After the application is started in the foreground and the message is viewed, call this API to cancel the notification.
     notificationManager.cancel(1, (err: BusinessError) => {
       if (err) {
         hilog.error(DOMAIN_NUMBER, TAG, `Failed to cancel notification. Code is ${err.code}, message is ${err.message}`);
         return;
       }
       hilog.info(DOMAIN_NUMBER, TAG, 'Succeeded in canceling notification.');
     });