Google just pushed the button on Android 16 QPR2, its second major update of the year, and it represents a huge shift in how our phones get better. Gone are the days of waiting for one massive ...

Google announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a slew of Android 16 updates, along with new general Android and accessibility features. The rollout of the new Android 16 features, which are first ...

After adding the “Mark as read” action, Google is modernizing Gmail for Android notifications with photo previews. Previously, Gmail notifications on Android showed the sender, subject line, and body.

Android phones and tablets come in all shapes and sizes, and they're often among the best smartphones on the market. However, even the best tech still runs into issues sometimes. A reboot is usually ...

Rebooting your Android phone is often recommended as one of the ways to remove any temporary bottlenecks in the phone's performance, as it clears the memory, closes any unused apps running in the ...

Google is working on a new Notification Summary feature for Android. It will summarize all the important group conversations and long messages. Managing a large number of notifications at once can be ...

Google is making a notable quality-of-life improvement to Gmail notifications by adding a “Mark as read” button on Android. To date, Gmail for Android notifications let you “Reply” and pick between ...

Google may be developing “Magic Actions” for Android, an AI-powered enhancement to notification actions that could leverage the Gemini AI model. This new feature, which we spotted in Android 16 code, ...

Slack has a new “Mark as Read” button on Android. The button allows you to mark messages as read from your notifications. When a new message is put in Slack, the app will let you know if there’s an ...

Phone notifications are tricky to balance: too many of them, and you're constantly distracted by buzzes and pings. Too few of them, and you risk missing something important, from a relative in trouble ...

Faith writes guides, how-tos, and roundups on the latest Android games and apps for Android Police. You'll find her writing about the newest free-to-play game to hit Android or discussing her paranoia ...