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

Android 16 will automatically group all notifications from the same app to create a more organized notification panel. While Android has supported notification grouping for years, it was largely up to ...

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 ...

I’m in too many group chats. It’s not a brag or a flex, it’s just kind of a thing that happens. I usually get added to an existing group any time I show up to a new run club, or one of my friends will ...

A powerful swing-and-a-miss, with tons of potential ...

Are you tired of the constant stream of notifications on your Android phone? Google may have a solution in development as part of its Android 16 update. For example, imagine having your notifications ...

Jon has been an author at Android Police since 2021. He primarily writes features and editorials covering the latest Android news, but occasionally reviews hardware and Android apps. His favorite ...

AI is everywhere! Writing essays, editing photos, producing social-media slop, doing your browsing for you, making plenty of mistakes—and now, if you've installed the latest Android 16 update ...

Ever been on relaxation mode and suddenly your phone goes off with a million of notifications at once? Talk about annoying. You would probably place your phone on silence just to escape the endless ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Moving into a new Android phone has gotten a lot easier over the years. Long gone are the days of connecting two phones with a ...