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 ...

Ben Lovejoy is a British technology writer and EU Editor for 9to5Mac. He’s known for his op-eds and diary pieces, exploring ...

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 ...

Samsung’s One UI 8.5 finally tackles spammy ad notifications with a new “Block apps with excessive ads” feature in Device Care. It automatically detects apps abusing notifications for ads, puts them ...

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 ...

Brave will let you block annoying cookie consent notifications in an upcoming version of the browser. Users will be asked if they want to block these notifications at the browser's first start. It has ...

Samsung has a new feature for Galaxy phones that gives users the ability to easily block apps that are spamming your notifications with ads. Highlighted by SammyGuru, Samsung has added an option to ...

We all know how annoying unwanted notifications are, especially when you're trying to focus. But turning notifications off entirely for a given app potentially means missing important messages. That's ...

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 ...

Android 17 Beta 3 includes strings for a new “Notification rules” feature that provides granular control over notifications from certain apps and people. Users can assign from five specific actions to ...

Receiving unwanted notifications from Reddit can be pretty inconvenient. Thankfully, Reddit allows you to disable all notifications, just some or all from particular subreddits. In addition to ...