As you can see, the usual app-supplied notifications icons blend better with the rest of the status bar icons. In contrast, when an app’s main icon is used for a notification, the icon looks out ...

Android 15 might bring more color and vibrancy to notification icons, moving away from the typically subdued tones users are accustomed to.

With Android 16, Google is stepping up notification bundling by forcing it on apps. Now, multiple notifications from a single app will be merged together into a single expandable item. Neat.

Evidence of a split notification and Quick Settings redesign has been around for quite a while now, but Android 16 Beta 3 introduces big changes to the design with a new notification panel that ...

However, Google does not seem to really be doing anything major with the app long press menu in Android 14, so the restoration of notifications doesn’t seem like it would be overly disruptive.