Google has made some changes to the way notifications are handheld in Android O including snoozing and notification channels. Here's what they're about.

If you're using a Galaxy device and this all sounds unfamiliar, that's because Samsung hides the functionality by default. To enable One UI's equivalent of notification channels, called ...

Android 15 will hide unused notification channels by default, making it easier to manage notifications from apps with lots of channels.

Android 15 could hide unused notification channels While having more notification channels does make for a more customized experience, chances are you are not going to be using every single channel.

In December last year, we reported that Google is working on a new notification feature called " Notification bundling " in Android 16. The purpose of this is to silence and group similar ...

For example, if you turn off the 'Tweets from people you follow' channel, it's still enabled in the app settings (so Twitter will continue to push the alerts, they'll just be silent).