Google is preparing to bring back a feature called notification cooldown that gradually lowers the volume of successive notifications from the same app. Google briefly introduced the feature in the ...

Android 16 is now available in its first Developer Preview phase. One of the new features found on Pixel devices in Android 16 DP1 is Notification Cooldown, which will minimize vibration and noise if ...

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 ...

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

The first developer preview of Android 15 has been available for several days now, and we're finally getting a glimpse as to what features it might bring. First up is partial screen recording, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the more practical new features introduced with this week’s Android 15 preview, Notification Cooldown, helps prevent your phone from incessantly alerting at full volume when a group text gets ...

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For now, only Google Pixel users will receive AI-generated summaries of long texts and group chats. For now, only Google Pixel users will receive AI-generated summaries of long texts and group chats.