The year was 2009. There were only two Marvel movies so far, Avatar came out, and Apple was launching the iPhone 3GS. It had a brand-new push-notification system that, among other things, would ...

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 ...

One area in which Android always had an upper hand over iOS is… notifications. Android has a much more robust notifications system that the competitive operating system, and that’s a fact. That being ...

Android users can easily manage unwanted notifications with notification channels for more control over app alerts. A hidden flag in Android 15 beta 1 hides unnecessary notification channels from apps ...

Google rolled out the Android 16 Beta 1 update earlier in January. At the time, the search engine giant announced that Android 16 would bring a new feature called “Live Updates” or “Live Notifications ...

In 2018, Google added a new “chat head” feature to its iPhone application, which displayed the caller’s avatar as a floating bubble-style notification. When tapped, this bubble expanded to reveal a ...

Android notifications are integral to our daily smartphone experience, helping us stay informed about messages, calls, events, news updates, social media activity, and more at a glance. However, it ...

One of the best arguments for using Android over iOS, I personally feel, is how notifications are handled. Organization is better, and there are a lot of helpful features for controlling notifications ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification ...

Every now and then, a new phone feature comes along that really makes you sit up and say: “Now, that’s cool.” Today, my fellow Android-appreciating animal, is one of those days — quite literally. No ...

Android 12 Developer Preview 1 released earlier today, and deep within, we’ve found the beginnings of an “Automatic” option that lets Android decide whether or not a notification is important enough ...