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 ...

I turned on notification summaries on my Pixel 9 Pro, and it was less chaotic than expected ...

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Google is working on a new Android feature that automatically summarizes notifications for you. Unlike Apple’s notification summaries feature, Google’s version will only summarize conversation ...

Google is preparing to bring back a feature called notification cooldown that gradually lowers the volume of successive notifications from the same app. Google briefly introduced the feature in the ...

Learn how to use DoNotNotify to block Android notifications selectively. Filter spam alerts, and stay focused without silencing everything.

Google has updated Android’s battery notification for headphones and earbuds to be a bit more glanceable. Appearing on initial Bluetooth connection or when the case is open, the old expanded “Devices” ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Enjoy the silence as Chrome changes. Republished on October 14 with Gemini’s latest Chrome upgrade, framing a decision for billions of users as new privacy concerns are raised.. Google has quietly ...