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 ...

The year was 2009. There were only two Marvel movies so far, Avatar came out, and Apple was launching the iPhone 3GS. It had a brand-new push-notification system that, among other things, would ...

In 2018, Google added a new “chat head” feature to its iPhone application, which displayed the caller’s avatar as a floating bubble-style notification. When tapped, this bubble expanded to reveal a ...

One area in which Android always had an upper hand over iOS is… notifications. Android has a much more robust notifications system that the competitive operating system, and that’s a fact. That being ...

The first Android 16 developer preview adds a feature called notification cooldown that gradually lowers the volume of successive notifications from the same app. This feature was first spotted in a ...

Learning how to snooze a notification in Android 12 can be incredibly useful. Especially if you’re seeing a lot of notifications during the day but don’t want those interrupting your day. But, of ...

Notification channels are one of the best features Android has debuted in recent years, but the feature can be a little bit much in some apps. In Android 15, though, it appears Google will make it ...

Android users can easily manage unwanted notifications with notification channels for more control over app alerts. A hidden flag in Android 15 beta 1 hides unnecessary notification channels from apps ...

One of the best arguments for using Android over iOS, I personally feel, is how notifications are handled. Organization is better, and there are a lot of helpful features for controlling notifications ...