Google is wrapping up 2025 with a wave of Android updates. Android 16 brings AI-powered notification management, custom icon shapes, auto-applied themed icons, and an expanded dark mode with reduced ...

Android 17 Beta 3 includes strings for a new “Notification rules” feature that provides granular control over notifications from certain apps and people. Users can assign from five specific actions to ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

Android has powerful tools to manage notifications; here's how to use them.

AI is everywhere! Writing essays, editing photos, producing social-media slop, doing your browsing for you, making plenty of mistakes—and now, if you've installed the latest Android 16 update ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Android 16's initial release is available on Pixel phones right now, but it's pretty light on new user-facing features. The big ...

Android 16 officially rolled out a few weeks ago, and in addition to enhanced protection and productivity enhancements, the latest OS introduced several changes to how notifications are received. If ...

Google is launching a new security feature for Chrome on Android. The feature is designed for users who enable notifications on websites. This feature uses AI to warn you if a website notification is ...

To put it politely, Android 16 QPR1 is the “real” release that we probably should have had earlier in the year. Not only is it a visual overhaul, but it’s also more feature-packed than the first phase ...