Push notifications were the best thing since sliced bread when they appeared first in Android and later in iOS and iPadOS. Instead of requiring a lot of attention, a notification can appear briefly, ...

Updates, notifications, messages, all come at us in a constant stream. While many of these digital nudges are welcome, some are not. In particular, notification spam can be a nuisance, misleading, and ...

There are 3 easy ways in both Chrome and Firefox to disable push notifications. You can disable push notifications for a single website or multiple websites or all ...

Push notifications are useful until apps start treating them like free ad space. On Android, this gets especially annoying because promotional alerts are not always clearly separated from important ...

Google says its layered “Swiss cheese” defense system has cut more than 7 billion unwanted Android notifications per day in Chrome as of Q1 2026, targeting scams, malware, and phishing attempts ...

Any time a company sends a push notification to an iPhone, its application can gather information about the user, including their location, according to security researchers. Meta and TikTok ...

It's perfect for silencing group chats, spammy apps, or irrelevant news. January 13, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google We all know how annoying unwanted ...

Notifications in Chrome allow apps, extensions, and websites to keep you in the loop for just about everything, such as new updates, events, warnings, and so on. They can be useful, but they can also ...

Looking back, I was surprised to see it’s been more than eight years since I put my iPhone on a notifications diet. My iPhone is a far calmer place because of this. But there’s another long-standing ...

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 ...

We get a lot of push notifications a day, from email apps, to messaging apps, to games, banks, and more. So we’re sure that the last thing most of us want is to be bombarded with useless notifications ...