Google is wrapping up 2025 with a wave of Android updates. Android 16 brings AI-powered notification management, custom icon shapes, auto-applied themed icons, and an expanded dark mode with reduced ...

Android 17 Beta 3 includes strings for a new “Notification rules” feature that provides granular control over notifications from certain apps and people. Users can assign from five specific actions to ...

This is the cure for lost Android notifications — and quite possibly the smartest upgrade you'll experience all year.

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Android 16's initial release is available on Pixel phones right now, but it's pretty light on new user-facing features. The big ...

Google is working on a new Notification Summary feature for Android. It will summarize all the important group conversations and long messages. Managing a large number of notifications at once can be ...

Android 16 officially rolled out a few weeks ago, and in addition to enhanced protection and productivity enhancements, the latest OS introduced several changes to how notifications are received. If ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Google is launching a new security feature for Chrome on Android. The feature is designed for users who enable notifications on websites. This feature uses AI to warn you if a website notification is ...

If I told any average person that my Android phone’s notifications could now be sticky, shareable, and extra-smart about snoozing, they’d probably look at me like I was a lunatic. And, let’s be honest ...

To put it politely, Android 16 QPR1 is the “real” release that we probably should have had earlier in the year. Not only is it a visual overhaul, but it’s also more feature-packed than the first phase ...