Android 16 may get iPhone-like ‘ongoing’ notifications

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

Proper now, the code permits 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 might be used for issues like telling you when to count on your Uber to reach. Android has already had a characteristic like this since Android 12 that lets you know the way lengthy you’ve been on a cellphone name, Rahman notes.

It seems to be just like the iOS Reside Actions characteristic, which surfaces issues like timers, sports activities scores, and supply ETAs on customers’ lock screens and on the prime of notifications. On the iPhone 14 Professional and up, they seem as widgets which can be a look away within the Dynamic Island cutout when 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 a good way to maintain from forgetting a couple of parking meter I paid for through my metropolis’s parking app, or shortly checking on when a meals supply will arrive. Having one thing related on Android could be one much less barrier to me switching again to the platform sooner or later.