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 ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

Android 17 is rumored to include a native App Lock feature. New code strings suggest that locked app notifications will show generic “New message” or “New notification” text instead of the usual ...

The first developer preview of Android 15 has been available for several days now, and we're finally getting a glimpse as to what features it might bring. First up is partial screen recording, which ...

Android 16 only debuted back in June, but another major Android update has just landed. It still falls under the Android 16 banner, but there's quite a lot in this new software package, including ...

One of the more practical new features introduced with this week’s Android 15 preview, Notification Cooldown, helps prevent your phone from incessantly alerting at full volume when a group text gets ...

Notification channels are a feature that first came into Android way back in 2017’s Android 8 (Oreo) era, many Android versions ago. Certain device-makers (cough, cough, Samsung) for some reason still ...

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For now, only Google Pixel users will receive AI-generated summaries of long texts and group chats. For now, only Google Pixel users will receive AI-generated summaries of long texts and group chats.