Now Android Authority has delved deeper into pre-release code to find that the “latest Android Canary reveals Google plans to ...

Android 17's App Lock feature is still a work-in-progress, but we've now learned how it will handle notifications from locked ...

An example is a user who locked the Google Messages app with App Lock. If they receive a message, they will only see a “New ...

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more. The Android additions include editing your ...

Google may finally be closing one of Android’s long-standing privacy gaps, and it’s doing it in a fairly low-key way. New ...

Names of unknown people who contact you could start showing in Google Messages notifications. For this feature to work, those people will need to have profile discovery enabled and have the number ...

You can have your phone or tablet make a brief noise, chime, or vibration whenever an app, call, or message notification comes through. Like customizing your ringtone with your favorite song, you can ...

Though we have come a long way when it comes to communicating with friends and family over the internet thanks to social media apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, sometimes plain old texting through the ...

If you're using one of the most common apps to manage text chats on an Android phone, you'll see a small blue dot appear next to certain conversations. In other cases, a different symbol, such as a ...