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 ...

AI notification summaries won't automatically take over your phone, after the update—you need to enable them manually. From ...

Our smartphones can be major distractions. For me, this is confirmed by my screen time breakdown informing me that I pick up my phone about 144 times per day (based on a three-week average), which ...

Notifications are great for staying informed, but they can quickly spiral out of control. With so many alerts coming in from ...

It never used to bother me when emails came rolling in after hours. For one thing, it comes with the job when you work in media; they mean it when they say the news cycle never ends. Plus, living in ...

This is You Won't Regret It, a new weekly column featuring recommendations, tips, and unsolicited advice from the Mashable culture team. I'll admit it: I am that Trash Person who takes approximately ...

Qualcomm’s new commercial that revives Justin Long as a frustrated Mac user who decides to spend hundreds of dollars on a new computer rather than manage his notifications is objectively terrible.

In addition to a change with the “Hey Google” hotword, some Pixel Buds Pro owners have been prompted about the “touch and hold” gesture no longer working to read notifications. Update 9/17: Google has ...

In the eight days since I published my review of Xiaomi's pioneering Mi Mix -- which mentioned MIUI's aggressive battery optimization set-up killing push notifications -- I've received half a dozen ...