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 ...

Android 17 is rumored to include a native App Lock feature. New code strings suggest that locked app notifications will show generic “New message” or “New notification” text instead of the usual ...

Trying to ruin the nearly perfect notification system.

Google rolled out the Android 16 Beta 1 update earlier in January. At the time, the search engine giant announced that Android 16 would bring a new feature called “Live Updates” or “Live Notifications ...

Anna is a passionate Evergreen writer at Android Police who exudes enthusiasm for all things Android. Her journey in the tech world started in childhood, and her love for gadgets has only intensified ...

Google could introduce “Rich Ongoing Notifications” in Android 16. Apps with access to this feature could show notifications similar to Apple’s Dynamic Island. Be it Apple’s iOS for iPhones or ...

I don’t like to see a bunch of notifications gather at the top of my phone, but I’m afraid to swipe them away for fear I’ll forget to do something important. Fortunately, there’s a tucked-away corner ...

Android 15 will hide unused notification channels by default. Apps can group their notifications by category by putting them into channels, allowing users to block the notification channels they don’t ...

If I told any average person that my Android phone’s notifications could now be sticky, shareable, and extra-smart about snoozing, they’d probably look at me like I was a lunatic. And, let’s be honest ...