Android has allowed intricate control of not only how notifications from different apps behave but also how different types of notifications within apps act since back in 2017’s Android 8.0 release.

How to change notification sounds for text messages . When your messages come through, you want the notification to become loud, clear, and distinctive.

When Android decides its time to cool down your notifications, it'll turn off vibrations and lower the volume of audio alerts for them, and you won't see any previews for notifications on screen. They ...

Google is working on a notification summaries feature in Android 16, and it could avoid a lot of the issues that plagued ...

If you have Android 10 or above, you can make sure message notifications – whether they’re SMS or from WhatsApp, Telegram or similar – from your BFF rank higher than others.

This option should apply to most phones running a generic version of Android. On Android 11 you will need to access your notification settings.

That can include Android settings that inadvertently cause delayed notifications. If you’ve been poking about in this manner, it could be tricky to identify which app change has tripped up your ...

So if you want to be notified of, say, Instagram direct messages but not every single like on a post, you can block the latter in the app's notification settings. But all of Android's notification ...