The split notification shade, where notifications and quick settings are divided into two at the top of the screen, has become an irritating standard on most Android phones since it arrived in early ...

Notification channels are a feature that first came into Android way back in 2017’s Android 8 (Oreo) era, many Android ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

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

Android 16 brings refined UI tweaks, live notification updates, adaptive refresh rates, improved multitasking for tablets, and tighter security. The update is currently available for Pixel 6 and newer ...

Google is developing an AI-powered “notification organizer” to automatically group your notifications into categories like promotions, news, and social. Expected to debut in an Android 16 quarterly ...

I was no longer scrambling to figure out what I’d missed ...