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 whilst you’re in the course of a gathering. On Android, you’ll be able to activate silent mode or snooze or disable notifications solely—or you’ll be able to depend on the brand new Notification Cooldown characteristic, which briefly 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 over a brief time frame by briefly reducing your system’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 needn’t fear about lacking vital alerts. You may nonetheless view them within the notification shade by knocking down 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 isn’t any 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.
The way to allow (or disable) Notification Cooldown
To show Notification Cooldown on or off in your Pixel system, open Settings and go to Notifications > Notification cooldown (beneath Basic). Use the toggle subsequent to “Use notification cooldown” to allow or disable the characteristic. Notification Cooldown could also be on by default, so you’ll be able to decide out in case you want to not use it.
Should you do not see this selection in your telephone’s settings, be sure to’ve up to date your system to the newest model of Android 15.
