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 ...

The first Android 16 developer preview adds a feature called notification cooldown that gradually lowers the volume of successive notifications from the same app. This feature was first spotted in a ...

Android has powerful tools to manage notifications; here's how to use them.

When I found out that Android keeps track of all of my notifications, I figured I'd check it out. I was expecting a nice little list of some missed alerts, but instead I got a full on 24 hours of ...

Google is developing an AI-powered “notification organizer” to automatically group your notifications into categories like promotions, news, and social. Expected to debut in an Android 16 quarterly ...

Are you tired of the constant stream of notifications on your Android phone? Google may have a solution in development as part of its Android 16 update. For example, imagine having your notifications ...

Android’s new notification rules could finally tame your alert overload. Early code in Android 17 points to a more capable way to manage how and when your phone interrupts you, especially if constant ...

A newly discovered flaw in Android’s notification system could let attackers manipulate the “Open Link” button to redirect users to malicious websites. While Google is working on a fix, users are ...