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 ...

The latest Android 15 QPR1 beta introduces a tutorial on how to use touchpad gestures for navigation. Although Google introduced touchpad gestures for navigation in last year’s Android 14 release, it ...

The notification drawer on Android can be both useful and distracting because of the sheer number of notifications that come in. You have to manage per-app notifications better through settings or set ...

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Notifications are an essential part of the smartphone experience, particularly for text messages and emails. You might also want to have notifications turned on for social media apps like Instagram, ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

Phone notifications are tricky to balance: too many of them, and you're constantly distracted by buzzes and pings. Too few of them, and you risk missing something important, from a relative in trouble ...

How many times have you accidentally dismissed a notification? Well, if you’re like me, you did it too many times to count. If you’re getting a lot of notifications this does tend to happen. The thing ...

So far, Google has done an admirable job of putting generative AI tools on Android smartphones. Earlier today, it announced further refinements to how users interact with Gemini AI assistant and ...