Android 15 will make it easier to deal with notification clutter

Android 15 will make it easier to deal with notification clutter

 

• Android 15 will hide unused notification channels by default.
• Apps can group their notifications by category by putting them into channels, allowing users to block the notification channels they don’t like selectively.
• Some apps create a lot of notification channels, making them hard to sort through, but this unreleased feature will address that problem.

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When people compare iOS to Android, one aspect of Android that receives nearly universal praise is how it handles app notifications. Thanks to the meticulous work Google has put into the feature over the years, Android notifications are easy to read, interact with, and manage. Android offers granular, per-app, and per-category-level control over notifications, and with every new OS release, Google has introduced new features to make managing them even easier. The upcoming Android 15 update will be no different.

With the release of Android 8.0 in 2017, Google introduced the ability for apps to create notification channels. Notification channels are essentially categories to which apps must assign notifications. For example, a shopping app might have a notification channel for order updates and another channel for promoting sales.

 

-Mishaal Rahman

 

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