Android 14 could allow you to disable full-screen notifications. These notifications are often used for activities like alarms and phone calls.

Android 14 beta brings a new feature that allows users to stop apps from sending full-screen notifications. Find out how to access this feature.

Included in that is a new setting in Android 14 that blocks apps from using full-screen notifications. Buried within “Special App Access” settings in Android 14 Beta 1, there’s a new ...

Users can then change the setting of any app which will then force the apps to revert back to a notification instead of a full-screen view. Here’s how to download Android 14 Beta 1 ...

Android 16 may add a new setting that’ll let you collapse notifications into a shelf on the lock screen. Here's what it'll look like.

Pixel phones running Android 16 or older, on the other hand, show a lot of notification information by default, with full banner notifications displayed on the lock screen, content, and all.

According to Mishaal, a single-finger swipe down brings the notification shade to about a quarter of the screen rather than the full screen, as we find in Android 15 and below.

If you're bored of the same old notifications, here is a list of apps to give to your Android a new freash air and make things a bit more interesting.