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

Android 14 looks to bring a big upgrade to how notifications are handled — and with a teensy bit of tinkering, you can add the same superpowers into any phone this second. Everyone in tech circles may ...

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 ...

Life gets busy and notifications are easy to miss. With voice notifications, your Android phone tells you exactly what’s ...

The ever-growing number of notifications on our smartphones can be overwhelming, disrupting our focus and creating unwanted noise. In response, Android 15 introduces a innovative feature called ...

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 ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...