For the past few releases, Ringtone and Notification volume has been controlled by one slider, but Google today signaled how that might be changing in Android 13 QPR3 or 14. With Android 13 QPR2 Beta ...

Volume control is a simple premise on Android phones. You hit your volume rocker, set your volume, and go. You can also set your notification, call, and media volumes independently. However, that is ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification ...

According to 9to5Google, Google is developing separate notification and ringtone volume sliders for Android, which is a long-requested feature. With this new feature, users will be able to change the ...

Android 15‘s redesigned volume panel is now live for beta users. First spotted in a developer preview build in early April, the new design is available with Android 15 Beta 2. The latest beta version ...

The first Android 16 developer preview adds a feature called notification cooldown that gradually lowers the volume of successive notifications from the same app. This feature was first spotted in a ...

Android's Material You design language, introduced in Android 12, has significantly enhanced the visual experience for users. Since then, Google has continuously refined this design philosophy with ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android 16 will introduce Notification cooldown, which gradually decreases alert volume from repeated app pings. It will also hide ...

Alongside the debut of its new speakers, Sonos has updated its Android app to finally revive support for the system’s built-in media player and lockscreen controls, as well as volume controls using ...

Sound and vibration settings open on an android smartphone that is placed on a laptop - Korosi Francois-Zoltan/Shutterstock For years, we relied heavily on headphones ...