Google is getting ready to change how users receive notifications, in the Android 15 update. Recent reports suggest that the tech giant is developing a compact design for these notifications to make them less bothersome and distracting especially when users are busy watching videos or playing games on their devices.
The heads up notifications, which were first introduced in Android 5.0 Lollipop show up as floating windows on the screen allowing users to see and interact with alerts away. However many users have complained about these notifications being intrusive and disruptive especially when they pop up over fullscreen apps. While Android currently provides options to turn off heads up notifications for channels or disable them completely using ADB these solutions can be complicated. May not be suitable, for everyones preferences.
A Game-Changer for Android 15 Notifications
The upcoming redesign of heads up notifications, in Android 15 aims to tackle these issues. With this improvement notifications will occupy screen space showing essential information and keeping images hidden unless expanded. Users can expand a notification by tapping the arrow to view details. Messaging apps will still display the notification icon, title and reply button for responses.
While the compact notification layout is not yet active in the Android 15 Beta 4 release it is anticipated to be introduced in a quarterly platform update or possibly in next years Android 16 release. Google is also developing a setting option that allows users to switch between standard layouts, for heads up notifications providing customization choices and user freedom.
