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TL;DR
- Google is getting ready to convey again a function referred to as notification cooldown that steadily lowers the quantity of successive notifications from the identical app.
- Google briefly launched the function within the first developer preview of Android 15 however later eliminated it from the primary beta.
- Proof suggests the function hasn’t been scrapped, although, as Google has continued engaged on it because it was pulled from the beta.
In case you’re a part of a really energetic group chat, you then’ve most likely heard your cellphone’s notification tone one million occasions by now. Whereas these fixed alerts are doubtless welcome, generally you’ll get notification spam from an surprising supply. If that occurs, the one factor you are able to do is react after the actual fact and disable notifications for that supply or flip down the notification quantity. Fortunately, the primary quarterly platform launch for Android 15 might need an answer to that downside.
Again in February, when Google launched the primary developer preview of Android 15, there was a brand new function referred to as “notification cooldown” tucked away beneath Settings > Notifications. This function, when enabled, would steadily decrease the quantity of successive notifications coming from the identical app. Mainly, the function prevents your cellphone from going off wildly while you obtain a ton of notifications in a really quick time frame.
When Google launched the primary public beta of Android 15, although, it eliminated the notification cooldown function. The function has but to return, even within the newest Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 replace that’s rolling out in the present day — however there’s sturdy proof it hasn’t been deserted.
For instance, within the fourth beta of Android 15, Google toyed with the thought of rebranding the function to “adaptive notifications.” Nevertheless, it later scrapped that concept within the first Android 15 QPR1 beta, probably as a result of Android used to have a distinct function by that title. What Google didn’t scrap, although, is a notification that may seem when the function is activated for the primary time. Though I haven’t managed to floor the notification, listed below are the strings that present what it’ll say:
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Your system quantity and alerts are diminished robotically for as much as 2 minutes while you get too many notifications without delay.
Notification cooldown is on With the discharge of Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2, we noticed much more additions to the notification cooldown function. Its web page within the Settings app has been utterly redesigned so as to add an academic animation and a single toggle. Beforehand, the notification cooldown function provided three choices: Apply cooldown to all notifications, apply cooldown to conversations, and don’t use notification cooldown. Now, there’s merely a binary selection: Both it’s on or it’s off.
In accordance with the up to date description for the notification cooldown function, it’ll decrease your system’s quantity and decrease alerts for “as much as two minutes.” Essential notifications from “calls, alarms, and precedence conversations will not be affected,” nonetheless.
Though the setting to stop your phone from vibrating like crazy appears to have been eliminated, Google has added a brand new toggle that permits you to determine whether or not to use notification cooldown to work profile apps.
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Apply to work profiles
Apply to work profile apps As I discussed already, the notification cooldown function nonetheless isn’t obtainable, not even in in the present day’s Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 replace. We needed to activate it manually to point out its up to date web page in settings. The function appears prefer it’s prepared for re-release, although, so we wouldn’t be shocked if it reveals up within the subsequent Android 15 QPR1 beta forward of QPR1’s launch in December.
