Here's how to manage notifications on any Android phone, be it Samsung, Google, or OnePlus, and make the most of the tools each brand offers.

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Google is experimenting with transparent notifications in Android 16. Notifications will appear transparent only when shown on the lock screen and on top of other apps. It’s unlikely that Google will ...

Turning it on is as simple too. Open the Settings app, go to Notifications, and under the Managesection, tap Notificationhistory. Toggle it on, and that's it. From here on, every recent and snoozed ...

Discover Android's new Sound Notifications feature that alerts you to smoke alarms, doorbells, and baby cries even when ...

Google is working on a new layout for heads-up notifications in Android 15 that makes them much more compact. Heads-up notifications are a type of notification that briefly appear in a floating window ...

Ah, notifications. Has any other technological wonder managed to be so incredibly helpful and so impossibly irritating at the same time? Notifications truly are one of our smartphones’ greatest ...

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 ...

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