How to add custom notification sounds for each app on your Android phone

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification ...

Google’s New Android Update Locks Your Apps And Hides Your Messages

Now Android Authority has delved deeper into pre-release code to find that the “latest Android Canary reveals Google plans to mask notifications by replacing their content with generic placeholder ...

Google Messages on Wear OS could soon add two features you've been waiting for

Google Messages on Wear OS could soon support emoji reactions and bring along a "Mark as read" button for notifications. Here ...

iOS 26’s new Messages feature got better when I changed this one setting

Apple’s Messages app scored a bunch of new features in iOS 26, including a new ‘Screen Unknown Senders’ option meant to ...
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This is the notification manager Google should’ve built for Android years ago

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 ...

5 Of The Best Android Apps You Won't Find On Windows

While there is some overlap between Android and Windows software, certain Android apps remain mobile‑only and are useful if you use both platforms daily.