With the Android 14 update, Google has done away with the ability to access notifications using the app icon long press method. This method became popular over the years and was a fun and quick way to ...

Android will soon let you stash notification bubbles to the side so they take up less space on the screen. Currently, notification bubbles are always fully visible on top of other apps. The ability to ...

Last year we saw the Google Messages icon design change into something new. Even though that change was around three months ago, users are just now seeing the notification icon for Google Messages ...

Google is considering changing which icons Android will use to show notifications in the status bar, notifications shelf, and always-on display. The company is experimenting with using apps’ main ...

Having notification icons in the status bar is one of Android’s advantages. That is not something iOS offers, and it’s a really neat feature to have. You can always glance at the status bar to see if ...

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