Certain notifications will be less likely to make you pull out your hair in Android 15

Certain notifications will be less likely to make you pull out your hair in Android 15،

Users will be able to choose between setting the notification cooldown for all notifications or just for conversations. If you keep getting notifications from a rather chatty messaging group you're a part of, the feature will make the constant notifications less annoying. So, whether it's an out-of-control group chat or constant notifications from an app, the feature will lower the notification volume every time you receive a notification from the same app or chat. The first notification will be heard at a regular volume but will decrease with each subsequent notification.

Android 15 DP1 added the “notification cooldown” feature that I first revealed in the Android 14 QPR2 beta for @AndroidPolice. This functionality “gradually decreases[s] the volume of notifications when you receive several successive notifications from the same application.” pic.twitter.com/Cd4Rh0EWbV

– Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) February 16, 2024

No matter how many times a notification is repeated, it will never be completely silent. The idea is that the user hears the decreasing notification volume and recognizes that a notification just received is from an app or conversation that has already sent notifications. This way the user can decide to ignore a low volume notification and not bother opening one until it is accompanied by the usual notification volume indicating that the latest notification is from 'a new sender.

After an unknown period of time, the notification cooldown will be reset and notifications from all apps and conversations, even those that have sent you multiple notifications, will be accompanied by a regular notification volume.

Google aims for one more Android 15 Developer Preview next month with the start of Android 15 beta program taking place in April. One beta per month is planned from April to July, with the beta reaching platform stability in June. The final version of Android 15 could arrive in September or October. Last year, Android 14 was released by Google on October 4.