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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Has there ever been something as simultaneously invaluable and irritating as our modern-day device notifications? All the beeps, bloops, and blorps our various gadgets send our way serve an important ...

I don’t want to embarrass you, but the top of your phone’s screen is, like, totally a waste of space. For years now, y’see, Android device-makers have been designing devices with a circular cutout ...