Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The dust has barely settled on Android 15, but less than a year later, we have a smaller but still important Android 16 update stuffed with new functions and features for Google Pixel phones – here’s ...

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 ...

Google could introduce “Rich Ongoing Notifications” in Android 16. Apps with access to this feature could show notifications similar to Apple’s Dynamic Island. Be it Apple’s iOS for iPhones or ...

A bug in Android notifications can cause the “Open link” button to open a different link than the one displayed. Hidden characters in the messages can confuse the system, causing it to open a link ...

Android tricks that feel oddly powerful ...