Android 16 may get iPhone-like ‘ongoing’ notifications

Android 16 might include a brand new “Wealthy Ongoing Notifications” function that lets builders hold persistent notifications within the Android standing bar, in accordance with Android 15 beta code found by Android Authority’s Mishaal Rahman, who often dives into code to floor coming options.

Proper now, the code allows including a pill-shaped icon with customized textual content and background shade to the Android standing bar. Some mock notifications Rahman created present the way it may very well be used for issues like telling you when to anticipate your Uber to reach. Android has already had a function like this since Android 12 that lets you know the way lengthy you’ve been on a cellphone name, Rahman notes.

It appears much like the iOS Reside Actions function, which surfaces issues like timers, sports activities scores, and supply ETAs on customers’ lock screens and on the high of notifications. On the iPhone 14 Professional and up, they seem as widgets which might be a look away within the Dynamic Island cutout whilst you’re doing different issues in your cellphone.

I’d like to have one thing similar to that on my Pixel 6 cellphone. Reside Actions have been an effective way to maintain from forgetting a few parking meter I paid for through my metropolis’s parking app, or shortly checking on when a meals supply will arrive. Having one thing comparable on Android can be one much less barrier to me switching again to the platform sooner or later.