If you’ve been using Snapchat since 2023, you may have occasionally seen “time-sensitive” notifications that hit even when your phone is supposed to be completely silenced, blocking other alerts. Here ...

Phones are an indispensable part of our lives — they are a portal to the internet, a source of entertainment and our digital companions. According to a report by Statista, we downloaded a total of 255 ...

Anyone with a smartphone should be well acquainted with the concept of app notifications by now. Depending on how many services you regularly access on your mobile device, the amount of alerts you may ...

If constant phone notifications are distracting you throughout the day, the Notification Summary feature can help. Available ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Instagram has quietly updated its ‘Daily Limit’ feature that lets users receive notifications when they spend too much time on the app. However, instead of adding more control, the social network has ...

News alerts, emails, text messages, updates—notifications can be a lot. BuzzKill is an app that lets Android users build plain-language rules to decide, with greater control, which notifications hit ...