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TL;DR Google is developing an AI-powered “notification organizer” to automatically group your notifications into categories like promotions, news, and social.
Expected to debut in an Android 16 quarterly release, the feature will silence and bundle alerts it identifies as a match into one of four categories.
The feature may be a Pixel-exclusive at launch, and users will be able to exempt specific apps, ensuring important alerts are not bundled away.
Notifications offer a quick way to stay updated, but a constant barrage of them can be disruptive. While every app vies for your attention, not all of its notifications are equally important in the moment. To help you manage this influx more efficiently, Google is developing a “notification organizer” feature that uses AI to group your notifications into categories. This feature could debut in the first quarterly release of Android 16.
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Similar to how email apps like Gmail automatically sort your inbox, Android’s upcoming “notification organizer” will apply the same principle to your notifications. The feature will use AI to analyze your incoming alerts and, when it identifies a match, will silence the notification and bundle it into one of four categories: Promotions : Sales, new features, and more
: Sales, new features, and more News : Top stories, editorials, and more
: Top stories, editorials, and more Social : Likes, posts, and more
: Likes, posts, and more Suggested: Newsletters, recommended media, and more I first discovered evidence of this feature late last year when it was called “bundled notifications.” Since then, a few key details have emerged. Google has renamed it to “notification organizer,” a name that more accurately describes its function. Furthermore, the feature’s description now explicitly states that it’s “AI-powered and may contain errors,” confirming our earlier suspicions about its use of artificial intelligence. If a notification is categorized, its corresponding notification channel will be updated to ensure future, similar notifications are also bundled.
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