- Android now blocks notifications from alerting you if they’re more than two weeks old.
- This change is enabled starting in Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2.
- This will reduce how annoying it is to boot up devices you haven’t touched in weeks.
Android does many things right when it comes to handling notifications, such as combining them, showing you smart replies, letting you reply in-line, and more. However, many people still find some things about notifications on Android annoying. One example is how the OS handles, or rather doesn’t handle, old notifications. Fortunately, the latest beta for Android 15 finally has a fix for old notification spam.
Picture this: You have an old or secondary Android tablet that you only use on occasion, such as when you’re going on vacation. To maintain its battery, you keep it turned off when you aren’t using it, so it might go days or even weeks between uses. The next time you boot up that Android tablet and connect it to the Internet, it’s going to start pulling in all the notifications that you “missed,” even if you already saw all those notifications on your Android phone.