I bet we all have a love/hate relationship with notifications. They’ve become a necessary part of our digital lives, yet they can also be endlessly annoying and overwhelming if not controlled. While ...

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

Whenever my phone's display lights up, I feel a strong urge to check it. These alerts constantly pull me back to the screen, often causing me to lose focus and spend hours scrolling endlessly. It ...

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 ...

Make your phone's notifications more useful and less annoying with these off-the-radar power-user possibilities.

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 ...

News alerts, emails, text messages, updates—notifications can be a lot. BuzzKill is an app that lets Android users build plain-language rules to decide, with greater control, which notifications hit ...

Google may soon address a longstanding issue faced by users of multiple Android devices. A new “sync notifications across devices” feature, discovered in the latest Android 15 beta update, promises to ...

Conor has been staunchly in favor of Android since graduating to a smartphone from his hot pink Motorola RAZR. In fact, he'll gladly ruin a friendly dinner in service of lambasting Apple devices to ...

Google is preparing support for “summarized” notifications in Android 16, as revealed by code in the third beta update. Android 16’s latest update is out now and, on the surface, there aren’t a ton of ...

When you visit a new website using Chrome on Android, you may receive a request to enable notifications. These notifications are meant to help you track meeting reminders, deals, news updates, and ...