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 USB cable and waiting as your texts, call log, and photos trickle from ...

Android has always handled notifications better than the iPhone. You get organized alerts, quick updates, and a system that mostly works on its own. However, as you ...

There’s an easy fix, yes, but the fact that this is opt-in is a baffling anti-consumer move, especially when channels are — in my opinion — one of Android’s best features. When people ask me why I ...

Samsung‘s One UI 6.1 update, introduced with the Galaxy S24 series, has brought several improvements to Samsung phones. However, the notification management in the latest One UI version is telling a ...

Google is developing an AI-powered “notification organizer” to automatically group your notifications into categories like promotions, news, and social. Expected to debut in an Android 16 quarterly ...

I was no longer scrambling to figure out what I’d missed ...

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

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Notification channels are a feature that first came into Android way back in 2017’s Android 8 (Oreo) era, many Android versions ago. Certain device-makers (cough, cough, Samsung) for some reason still ...

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 ...