Android 12adds a feature called Enhanced Notifications.
Android 12 users looking for the features of Adaptive Notifications will want to use Enhanced Notifications.
Another source of confusion is the Adaptive Notifications Ranking toggle included in the developer mode.
Swipe up from the Android home screen to fire up the app launcher.
Scroll to the bottom to find theEnhanced notificationssetting.
Tap the toggle to turn Enhanced notifications on.
A pop-up will appear and explain the Enhanced notifications feature.
The Enhanced notifications feature is now enabled.
You likely won’t notice an immediate change, however.
In other words, there’s no way to set Enhanced Notifications ranking or Adaptive Notifications ranking manually.
Instead, the AI algorithm determines priority based on how often you use or dismiss notifications.
How to Manage Enhanced Notifications
The specifics of how Enhanced Notifications prioritizes your notifications are vague.
There’s no setting in Android 12 to let you manually set how Google’s AI prioritizes your notifications.
However, Android still offers detailed control over which notifications appear.
Here’s how to change the notification options for a specific app.
Tap an app in this list to open its notification options.
The specific notification controls you see will depend on the app, though all apps offer anAll notificationstoggle.
Turning this toggle off will block all notifications from that app.
Below this master setting, you’ll see a list of app features that could generate a notification.
Each feature will have a toggle next to it.
Turn the toggle off to disable notifications for that app feature.
Should I Turn Enhanced Notifications Off?
You don’t have to use Enhanced Notifications.
Turning them off will effectively revert to Android 11’s notification system.
It’s hard to say whether you’ll notice a difference in either case.
An immediate change wasn’t noticeable in our testing.
There is one concrete reason you might want to turn Enhanced Notifications off.
The feature warns it “can access notification contact, including personal information like contact names and messages.”
The AI presumably uses this information to sort notifications better.
For example, it might notice a text message looks like spam and remove it.
However, privacy-minded Android users might find this warning ominous and decide to turn Enhanced Notifications off.
FAQ
Android Adaptive Notifications used AI to adjust the order of notifications.
Android Notification Assistant Service makes Notification Assistant adjustments to notifications, such as adding contextual options to a notification.
For example, it might provide the option to call a number sent to you in an SMS message.
rig Personalization Services uses system permissions to provide smart predictions.
To access it, go toSettings>Privacy>Android System Intelligence.
