Samsung introduced Live Notifications in the Now Bar with One UI 7, but they’re about to get better with One UI 8. These rival Apple’s Live Activities and offer ongoing activities more accessible via ...

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The latest builds of One UI 7 have added Live Notifications for media apps that display an ongoing notification for playback control. This extends to apps like Spotify, YouTube, and YouTube Music when ...

Samsung’s One UI 8.5 may let you prioritize notifications. It may allow users to assign a higher priority to notifications from certain apps so they don’t miss them. The notifications that may be ...

It takes some effort on every Galaxy device to tune notifications so that we don’t become bombarded with alerts at all waking moments. One UI 7 provides an avenue for that, as well as other advanced ...

There’s an easy fix, yes, but the fact that this is opt-in is a baffling anti-consumer move, especially when channels are — in my opinion — one of Android’s best features. When people ask me why I ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...