Master the art of tailor-made alerts and never miss an important notification again You can set different notification sounds for calls, emails, messages, and each app on your Android phone. Changing ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

Android 16 introduces Live Updates, a new feature that elevates ongoing notifications to the status bar, but it excludes media playback notifications. This is because media apps use a dedicated “Media ...

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Locket simplifies social media to its essentials, making it easy to share photos and stay in touch with close contacts in an unobtrusive way.

Snapchat alerts users for all chat screenshots. Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger do so only with disappearing messages. Telegram and Signal restrict or block screenshots in secret chats. WhatsApp ...

Google is preparing support for “summarized” notifications in Android 16, as revealed by code in the third beta update. Android 16’s latest update is out now and, on the surface, there aren’t a ton of ...

Google is working on a new Android feature that automatically summarizes notifications for you. Unlike Apple’s notification summaries feature, Google’s version will only summarize conversation ...

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