By Emma Roth
Publication Date: 2025-12-02 19:00:00
More Android phones will soon support AI-powered notification summaries. The feature comes bundled in the latest version of Android 16 and rolled out on Pixel devices last month, but now other phone makers like Samsung can begin adding it to their devices.
Unlike Apple’s version of the feature for iOS, Google is limiting it to chat apps, meaning you won’t see any wonky AI-generated news summaries just yet. Google says it will condense longer messages and group conversations into shorter snippets that you can view at a glance.
Additionally, Google is launching a new notification organizer that will automatically group and silence “lower-priority” notifications related to promotions, news, and alerts from social platforms. Some other updates coming to Android 16 include the ability to personalize your home screen with custom icon shapes and themes. You can also use a new expanded dark mode feature, which automatically darkens apps even if they don’t natively support the…
