An Android 16 beta notification characteristic is already exhibiting up in Android 15 QPR2

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Android 15 QPR 2 beta 2 brings again the notification cooldown characteristic.
The characteristic reduces notification quantity for repeated alerts from the identical app.
This characteristic will possible be included with Google’s subsequent Function Drop in March 2025.

It is solely been a couple of days since Google launched the Android 15 QPR1 steady construct for Pixel units, however consideration has already shifted to Android 15 QPR2, which entered its second beta earlier this week. Whereas this construct primarily focuses on bug fixes and stabilizing the model forward of its March 2025 launch, an attention-grabbing Android 16 characteristic (or slightly an previous one) has been noticed within the new construct of Android 15 QPR2.

First noticed by Mishaal Rahman on X, Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2 brings again the notification cooldown characteristic. For many who aren’t conscious, the notification cooldown characteristic first appeared in Android 15 Developer Builds earlier than being eliminated within the beta part. It later resurfaced within the Android 16 Developer Preview 1 however has now proven up once more in Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2, suggesting it might certainly launch with Android 15 slightly than Android 16.

Notification cooldown makes a return in Android 15 QPR 2 beta 2

Notification cooldown in Android 15 QPR2

For these unfamiliar with how the characteristic works, it is designed to handle the overwhelming circulate of notifications. When enabled, the notification cooldown characteristic regularly reduces the amount of successive notifications from the identical app. For instance, if an excessively lively group chat is distracting you, this characteristic will mechanically decrease the notification tone quantity when a number of notifications arrive in a brief span of time.

As such, essential alerts like calls, alarms, and precedence notifications stay unaffected, making certain they’re delivered at full quantity. It is a useful characteristic for stopping your telephone from bombarding you with alerts and serving to ease notification anxiousness. This characteristic may be discovered beneath the Notification settings on Pixel units operating Android 15 QPR2 Beta 2, and it comes enabled by default.

Whereas Google hasn’t formally confirmed its launch, the characteristic’s return in Android 15 QPR2 Beta suggests it might arrive with Google’s subsequent Function Drop in March 2025. Nevertheless, given Google has eliminated it beforehand from Android 15, there’s nonetheless an opportunity it may very well be delayed till Android 16.