{"id":233829,"date":"2026-04-21T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/androids-next-big-fix-might-be-for-the-people-you-wish-would-stop-texting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T11:20:07","slug":"androids-next-big-fix-might-be-for-the-people-you-wish-would-stop-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/androids-next-big-fix-might-be-for-the-people-you-wish-would-stop-texting\/","title":{"rendered":"Android&#8217;s next big fix might be for the people you wish would stop texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-notification-rules-upgrade\/\">Android&#8217;s next big fix might be for the people you wish would stop texting<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-notification-rules-upgrade\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-notification-rules-upgrade\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-21 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android no longer has a notification overload problem. It has a notification quality problem.<\/p>\n<p>Google has given us many tools to manage alerts, but most still treat the app as what matters most. That sounds reasonable until real life gets involved.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, I don&#8217;t want to mute an entire platform. I want to mute the loud people, keep the important people loud, and push everything else into the background.<\/p>\n<p>That is what makes the latest Android 17 leak so interesting. The leaked strings suggest Android may finally be getting a system that lets us shape notification behavior around both specific apps and specific people.<\/p>\n<p>Google has not officially announced Notification Rules for Android 17. This is an APK teardown by Android Authority, not a public feature promise. Late-cycle Android features can change or disappear.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-we-know-so-far-about-notification-rules\">\n                        What we know so far about notification rules<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<p>        Credit:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lucas Gouveia \/ Android Police | Sinseeho \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p> In Android 17 Beta 3, the publication found strings referencing a new Notification Rules screen, a Create New Rule flow, separate selectors for App and People, and a searchable picker that supports selecting multiple entries at once.<\/p>\n<p>Those same strings have also been spotted in leaked Samsung One UI 9 builds, which suggests this isn&#8217;t exclusive to Google Pixel devices.<\/p>\n<p>Taken together, this looks like an active feature in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-notification-rules-upgrade\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android&#8217;s next big fix might be for the people you wish would stop texting https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/android-notification-rules-upgrade\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/android-17-logo-with-notifications-showing-priority-contacts-unmuted-and-others-muted-with-red-x-icons.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72,86],"class_list":["post-233829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel","tag-samsung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233829"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233831,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233829\/revisions\/233831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}