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.

A new permission found in Android 14 allows users to block apps from using full-screen notifications, useful for apps abusing the function.

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.

As reported by 9to5Google, Android 14 is said to allow users to block the apps from taking full-screen view while displaying notifications.

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.

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.

Google is making updates to notifications in Android 16 QPR1 for Pixel devices, with new shortcuts and an updated lock screen layout.

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.