It's easy to forget that one of the most powerful features on your Android phone is notification management. From snoozing to ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

So far, Google has done an admirable job of putting generative AI tools on Android smartphones. Earlier today, it announced ...

Android 14 could allow you to disable full-screen notifications. These notifications are often used for activities like alarms and phone calls. Android offers a very robust notification system, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first developer preview for Android 12 is here! We’re digging through to see what’s new, and as is customary for Google, one of the first things we noticed was yet another tweak to the design of ...

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 ...