Although the first Android 15 developer preview focuses less on visual changes, it does introduce a useful feature called Notification Charge. This feature eliminates the annoyance of having your phone constantly buzzing or beeping due to repeated notifications.

The concept is simple: If your phone receives multiple notifications from the same app in a short period of time, Notification Wait Time gradually reduces the volume and vibration intensity of subsequent notifications.

This makes it easier to distract yourself from the constant buzz caused by chatty people or active group streams. If you have apps where every notification is critical, Google lets you apply notification reload times to conversations only.

Also note that this “rescue” is not permanent. After a brief pause in the conversation, notifications will return to full volume. If you want all notifications to be at maximum volume (for work or a call), this feature can be easily turned off.

Enable/disable “charging notifications”

Google automatically enabled this feature in the developer preview, but if you’re using it you can set it up like this:

• Open your device’s Settings app.
• Tap Notifications.
• Scroll down and select “Reset Notification”.
• Your options:
• “Apply recovery time to all notifications” for complete silence.
• “Apply Cooldown to Conversations” to target the conversation.
• “Do not use notification recovery time” to disable the feature completely.

The future of reload notifications

As Android 15 progresses, Google may further improve notification refresh times. An ideal add-on would be a per-app setting that allows users to fine-tune which apps this relaxing feature applies to.

Notification Wait Time, even in its raw form, has the potential to simplify the way we manage notifications on our devices.