You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than two weeks old. This change is enabled starting in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2. This will reduce how annoying it is to boot up devices ...

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

An upcoming version of the Google Sounds app will let you change the vibration pattern for your selected ringtone or notification alert. Previously, the vibration pattern that was associated with a ...

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