You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

Moving into a new Android phone has gotten a lot easier over the years. Long gone are the days of connecting two phones with a USB cable and waiting as your texts, call log, and photos trickle from ...

Google's next big Android version has an extremely useful new nuisance-reducer — and with a teensy bit of crafty configuration, you can bring a similar superpower to any Android device this instant.

Notifications can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Though they'll sometimes alert you of something important—i.e.

My journey with Android started off with Android 1.5, which was known as Cupcake (as Google previously named every Android version after desserts). Since then, I've seen Android maturing over the ...

Now Android Authority has delved deeper into pre-release code to find that the “latest Android Canary reveals Google plans to mask notifications by replacing their content with generic placeholder ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Moving into a new Android phone has gotten a lot easier over the years. Long gone are the days of connecting two phones with a ...