Push notifications are undoubtedly helpful, but some users find them annoying. Luckily for them, Android will soon make it easier to squash them. Android N, the upcoming version of the Android OS, ...

I used to default to swiping away all of my notifications on Android, almost as if there was some virtue in achieving "notification zero" much like inbox zero. But Android has several tools to handle ...

YouTube is running a new experiment where you will not receive push notifications even if you have your notification settings set to “All” for a channel. In this test, push notifications will stop for ...

Google says its layered “Swiss cheese” defense system has cut more than 7 billion unwanted Android notifications per day in Chrome as of Q1 2026, targeting scams, malware, and phishing attempts ...

Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than two weeks old. This change is enabled starting in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2. This will reduce how annoying it is to boot up devices ...

Google says Chrome cut unwanted Android notifications by more than 7 billion per day using permission controls, abuse detection, rate limits, and on-device ML. Google waded off billions of spammy and ...