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Changes made to notifications on one Android device may reflect across all others with the same Google account.
Google has been ramping up efforts to ensure Android matches iOS in cross-device functionality. Earlier this year, it announced—and subsequently rolled out—a bare-bones utility resembling Apple’s Continuity, with automatic hotspot and call sharing across devices. Now, Android could gain a new feature that helps declutter notifications and eliminate duplicates across devices.
Google is supposedly working on a feature that synchronizes notifications across multiple devices. Android 15’s second QPR1 beta update instances of code referencing new features coming to Android, as spotted by Android Authority.
These include menu items in the Settings app that allow notifications to “sync across devices.” When you clear any notification from one device, the feature might potentially dismiss it from all the other Android devices with the same Google account.
The strings assigned to the feature in Android 15’s source code indicate it could be available widely as a core Android feature instead of being limited to just Google’s Pixel lineup. That means Android phones, irrespective of their brands or custom interfaces, could access the feature if it’s activated by Google, though there isn’t enough evidence presently that it would. Whether it would run specifically on Android 15 or also be available on older devices remains unclear, too.
Will Other Notifications in Android 15 Change?
In addition to synced notifications, some other strings regarding notifications appear in Android’s code. The first is “sensitive notifications,” while the other is “notification cooldown.” The code lacks any description tagged with these features. Certain notifications set as “sensitive” would probably hide their content even when the Android device is unlocked.
Meanwhile, the cooldown feature apparently reduces the volume and vibration intensity when you receive multiple notifications from the same app successively. This differs from the Scheduled Summary in iOS, which allows you to delay low-priority notifications and set them to be delivered at a specific time of the day.
While notifications cooldown was first spotted in the early Developer Preview builds of Android 15, it has yet to make it to the release builds. We cannot ascertain if any of these will be available in upcoming stable versions of Android 15, but we sure hope they do.
