Android put background apps on a strict diet and accidentally starved their notifications.

It makes notifications so much better.

The next major version of Android could include a feature that gives users much more granular control of app notification privacy. First spotted in an early developer build of Android 17 by Android ...

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 ...

Android 16 hides the content of certain sensitive notifications from appearing on the lock screen, in particular notifications with OTP codes. This follows a change in Android 15 that blocks untrusted ...

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This article explains how to set up Fitbit notifications to mirror some of your smartphone's notifications. These instructions ...

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 ...

Jon Gilbert is a Features Writer for Android Police. I've covered Android since 2021, focusing on writing features and guides about Android apps and features that directly affect users. I've attended ...

Android notifications are pretty great, it's one of those features Android still does better than iPhone even after all these years. Want a history of all your notifications? Done. Want to snooze ...

With about 60 seconds of simple setup, you can have Google's Gemini AI genie sum up your incoming notifications this instant — no matter what Android device you're using. At this point, I think it’s ...