Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android 16 will introduce Notification cooldown, which gradually decreases alert volume from repeated app pings. It will also hide ...

One area in which Android always had an upper hand over iOS is… notifications. Android has a much more robust notifications system that the competitive operating system, and that’s a fact. That being ...

Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than two weeks old. This change is enabled starting in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2. This will reduce how annoying it is to boot up devices ...

The ever-growing number of notifications on our smartphones can be overwhelming, disrupting our focus and creating unwanted noise. In response, Android 15 introduces a innovative feature called ...

Learning how to snooze a notification in Android 12 can be incredibly useful. Especially if you’re seeing a lot of notifications during the day but don’t want those interrupting your day. But, of ...

Before this, Android apps had to create their own notification systems. Uber, for example, built custom notifications to show a driver’s location. Google has now made a standard system so any app can ...

The next major version of Android could include a feature that gives users much more granular control of app notification privacy. First spotted in an early developer build of Android 17 by Android ...

In my switch to the Galaxy Z Fold 7 as my main phone in recent months, there’s just one thing that continues to annoy me. Samsung seemingly feels the need to ruin Android notifications, and it’s the ...

Android 14 notifications can now sync with flashes from the camera or display. The controls appear within the Accessibility settings. You can even change the color of ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...