Whereas it is typically helpful to get notifications in your telephone, there are occasions when it is an excessive amount of, too quick, equivalent to after you disable Airplane Mode or when your loved ones textual content thread is blowing up when you’re in the midst of a gathering. On Android, you possibly can activate silent mode or snooze or disable notifications solely—or you possibly can depend on the brand new Notification Cooldown characteristic, which quickly lowers the literal and figurative quantity in your alerts so you do not have to handle these modes your self.
We have identified this characteristic was coming for some time, and it lastly arrived on Android 15 with the March 2025 replace.
How Notification Cooldown works
Notification Cooldown manages a deluge of alerts that are available in over a brief time period by quickly decreasing your machine’s quantity and minimizing on-screen pop-ups. The cooldown can last as long as two minutes.
Notifications do not disappear solely when Notification Cooldown is enabled, so that you need not fear about lacking vital alerts. You’ll be able to nonetheless view them within the notification shade by flattening from the highest of your telephone’s display screen. Calls, alarms, emergency alerts, and precedence conversations will nonetheless come by throughout a cooldown.
Sadly, there is no choice to customise Notification Cooldown—such because the alert threshold that triggers it, how lengthy it lasts, and which apps are cooled—aside from turning the characteristic on or off.
Find out how to allow (or disable) Notification Cooldown
To show Notification Cooldown on or off in your Pixel machine, open Settings and go to Notifications > Notification cooldown (underneath Normal). Use the toggle subsequent to “Use notification cooldown” to allow or disable the characteristic. Notification Cooldown could also be on by default, so you possibly can choose out in the event you favor to not use it.
If you happen to do not see this feature in your telephone’s settings, be sure you’ve up to date your machine to the most recent model of Android 15.