diff --git a/app/react/components/datatables/types.ts b/app/react/components/datatables/types.ts
index 021bc6d5b..81a125e27 100644
--- a/app/react/components/datatables/types.ts
+++ b/app/react/components/datatables/types.ts
@@ -24,10 +24,11 @@ export interface SortableTableSettings {
 
 export function sortableSettings(
   set: Set<SortableTableSettings>,
-  initialSortBy = 'name'
+  initialSortBy = 'name',
+  desc = false
 ): SortableTableSettings {
   return {
-    sortBy: { id: initialSortBy, desc: false },
+    sortBy: { id: initialSortBy, desc },
     setSortBy: (id: string, desc: boolean) => set({ sortBy: { id, desc } }),
   };
 }
diff --git a/app/react/portainer/notifications/NotificationsView.tsx b/app/react/portainer/notifications/NotificationsView.tsx
index 3b4069500..90dca55b0 100644
--- a/app/react/portainer/notifications/NotificationsView.tsx
+++ b/app/react/portainer/notifications/NotificationsView.tsx
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import { columns } from './columns';
 import { createStore } from './datatable-store';
 
 const storageKey = 'notifications-list';
-const useSettingsStore = createStore(storageKey, 'time');
+const useSettingsStore = createStore(storageKey, 'time', true);
 
 export function NotificationsView() {
   const settingsStore = useSettingsStore();
diff --git a/app/react/portainer/notifications/datatable-store.ts b/app/react/portainer/notifications/datatable-store.ts
index acc4e5770..d0e0e4c81 100644
--- a/app/react/portainer/notifications/datatable-store.ts
+++ b/app/react/portainer/notifications/datatable-store.ts
@@ -19,11 +19,15 @@ interface TableSettings
     SettableColumnsTableSettings,
     RefreshableTableSettings {}
 
-export function createStore(storageKey: string, initialSortBy?: string) {
+export function createStore(
+  storageKey: string,
+  initialSortBy?: string,
+  desc?: boolean
+) {
   return create<TableSettings>()(
     persist(
       (set) => ({
-        ...sortableSettings(set, initialSortBy),
+        ...sortableSettings(set, initialSortBy, desc),
         ...paginationSettings(set),
         ...hiddenColumnsSettings(set),
         ...refreshableSettings(set),