Android typically forces low-priority apps to sleep so that they don't drain your phone's battery. Putting apps to sleep means they won't consume a lot of power and won't run in the background ...

Your phone’s lock screen displays notifications and alerts without unlocking it. You can also access some features directly ...

If you’re running Android 16 on a recent phone, you might want to double-check your notifications. A new bug is causing some alerts to go silent — even with ...

I bet we all have a love/hate relationship with notifications. They’ve become a necessary part of our digital lives, yet they can also be endlessly annoying and overwhelming if not controlled. While ...

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Android 15 blocks untrusted apps from reading sensitive notifications, even if they have permission to read all notifications. Before Android 15, apps with notification access were able to read all ...

Android notifications are pretty great, it's one of those features Android still does better than iPhone even after all these years. Want a history of all your notifications? Done. Want to snooze ...

Has there ever been something as simultaneously invaluable and irritating as our modern-day device notifications? All the beeps, bloops, and blorps our various gadgets send our way serve an important ...

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As you may know, we have a free Trade Rumors app for both iOS and Android. The app allows you to set up custom feeds and notifications for any combination of sports, teams, and players across MLB ...