It looks like Android 15 will help you organize your notifications for good

Android and iOS have struggled with keeping up with notifications on their phones for years, but it looks like Android 15 will introduce a few new features that will finally help you get a handle on those alerts for good.

According to Android Authority, the latest Android 15 beta, currently in testing, won’t show notifications that are more than two weeks old. That could be a problem for people who hop between different Android phones and tablets.

Another improvement in the Android 15 beta, also spotted by Android Authority, suggests that notification syncing across different devices could also be improved – so new notifications won’t necessarily appear on all Android gadgets.

Combined, this should mean less time spent looking at notifications you shouldn’t be dealing with, whether they were originally delivered weeks ago or you’ve already viewed them on another device.

Coming soon

Google Pixel 9

Pixel 9 will soon get Android 15 (Photo source: Peter Hoffmann)

It also appears that Google engineers are working on making notifications less intrusive on the screen, which should improve the user experience when you’re playing a game or watching a movie and pop-up notifications appear.

As always with beta testing, there’s no guarantee that any of these features will make it into the final version of Android 15, but there’s a good chance they will, and they may undergo some further refinement before being released to a wider audience.

A patched version of Android 15 has already been released to developers, but various hardware manufacturers still need to adopt it: Google for its Pixel phones, Samsung for its Galaxy phones, OnePlus for its phones, and so on.

Google Pixel phones, like the Google Pixel 9, will be first in line for Android 15, and an October launch seems very likely. If you’re using another type of Android phone, you might have to wait a few more months to get it.