Google Pixel Phones get Notification Organiser in Android 16 Update

Google is rolling out a brand new Notification Organiser characteristic to Pixel telephones, which guarantees to make your notifications method smarter.

9to5Google has noticed Notification Organiser rolling out to the Google Pixel 9 and higher (so no Pixel 9a, it appears) with the Android 16 QPR2 replace. As soon as put in, it needs to be turned on by default.

You possibly can test by heading to Settings > Notifications > Notification organiser. It’s solely accessible to these with English set as the first language, and even then solely in Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US.

What does Notification Organiser contain?

On this free improve, Notification Organiser will routinely prepare your incoming alerts into sub-categories. Promotions and Information are lively by default, however you too can choose into Social and Recommended.

With this categorisation system utilized, you’ll be able to choose to silence notifications coming in underneath certainly one of these explicit banners. You may need to cease what primarily quantities to promotional flyers (so prevalent round this time of yr) from pinging you, or to maintain a hyper-active social media feed in test (you in style factor, you).

It’s additionally attainable to choose to “at all times develop bubbles” for a selected notification class, providing an instantaneous take a look at incoming notifications of a selected kind.

The associated Google assist web page signifies that AI is used within the processing of this Notification Organiser characteristic, which is why we’re being a bit of cautious over its true usefulness. AI hasn’t precisely had an ideal monitor document with notification administration thus far, as iPhone customers will attest to.

This newest notification characteristic follows on from Google’s associated AI summaries, which rolled out with the Android 16 QPR2 simply final week.