Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The first step in managing your notifications is to prioritize them. Not all notifications are equally important, and some may require your immediate attention, while others can wait. Android 15 ...

Google may be developing “Magic Actions” for Android, an AI-powered enhancement to notification actions that could leverage the Gemini AI model. This new feature, which we spotted in Android 16 code, ...

Android is filled with all kinds of useful features, but some of them are not so well known. Many of you probably don’t know that you can enable custom notification icons on Android, and we’re here to ...

Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than two weeks old. This change is enabled starting in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2. This will reduce how annoying it is to boot up devices ...

Google appears to be toying with a new take on notification icons in the status bar which, instead of the current look, would use the full-color app icons from your Android homescreen. The Android ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...