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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 ...

Notification channels are a feature that first came into Android way back in 2017’s Android 8 (Oreo) era, many Android ...

I was no longer scrambling to figure out what I’d missed ...

Google may be developing “Magic Actions” for Android, an AI-powered enhancement to notification actions that could leverage the Gemini AI model. This new feature, which we spotted in Android 16 code, ...

The first step in managing your notifications is to prioritize them. Not all notifications are equally important, and some may require your immediate attention, while others can wait. Android 15 ...

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 ...

That “Clear all” button is not as final as it looks.

Android is filled with all kinds of useful features, but some of them are not so well known. Many of you probably don’t know that you can enable custom notification icons on Android, and we’re here to ...

Google appears to be toying with a new take on notification icons in the status bar which, instead of the current look, would use the full-color app icons from your Android homescreen. The Android ...