The cell phone world is divided into two camps—iPhone users and Android users. Apple curates new features for iOS and Google develops for Android, and they likely don't spend a ton of time worrying ...

You may not be the only person you're notifying.

Android Auto can be set to automatically mute notifications when you're driving: Here's how to customize the feature.

WhatsApp has become an essential part of everyday communication. From early morning greetings to late-night conversations, most personal and professional chats now happen on this single app. Whether ...

You'll find Google Messages as the default messaging app on most new Android phones. So, it takes away the effort of hunting for a better texting app after the first boot. It's already there, ready to ...

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 ...

Google’s Notification cooldown feature should have been the perfect solution. It was introduced with Android 15 in October 2024, and it claimed it would reduce the appearance, sound, and vibration ...

We’re constantly bombarded with notifications, and ironically, that makes it easier to miss the ones that actually matter. To cut through the noise, I started using voice notifications on my phone to ...

Desktop notifications are one of those things you don’t think about until they stop working. Then they suddenly matter a lot. In my case, Google Calendar reminders suddenly stopped appearing on my ...

I've been in a particularly "back everything up for the sake of it" mood lately, and the latest target of my fixation is messages. It's been several generations of Android flagships since I archived ...

An internal Android 17 build codenamed CinnamonBun could trigger excitement for Android foldable fans. While early Android 16 beta builds hinted at a split layout, the change never made it to the ...