Google could bring notification summaries to Android in the future

One of the features of Apple Intelligence is notification summaries. This is an AI-powered tool that basically uses AI to summarize your notifications so you can glance at it quickly to get an idea of what’s going on. It’s useful if you get a lot of messages and emails. Now it looks like Google could bring notification summaries to Android.

According to a report from Android Authority, this potential feature was discovered in Android 16 Beta 3. There are strings in the code that makes references to a notification summary-like feature. However, there are some limitations to this feature and that is it will only summarize notifications from messages.

It sounds like a bad thing, but it’s actually good. Some of you might recall that Apple landed itself in hot water over the inaccuracies of its notification summary feature. So for Google to limit to messages might be a good idea, at least until its AI is smart enough where it won’t make the same mistakes Apple did.

But before you get too excited, it might not arrive anytime soon. According to Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman, he doesn’t think that Google will deploy this feature soon. He doesn’t believe that it will make the Android 16 stable release. It is possible that it could debut in future Android 16 updates or Android 17, but either way, we shouldn’t expect to see it so soon.