Home windows warns Cellphone Hyperlink received’t present ‘delicate’ Android 15 notifications

Microsoft’s Cellphone Hyperlink app is warning that Android smartphones utilizing the newest model of Android 15 received’t show sure “delicate” notifications, in keeping with a submit from Mishaal Rahman noticed by Home windows Central.

The warning is the results of an Android 15 privateness function that robotically categorizes notifications like these containing 2FA codes as “delicate” and prevents third-party apps from seeing them. That further little bit of privateness might turn out to be useful in the event you’ve unwittingly given a malicious app permission to entry your notifications. Nevertheless it might be inconvenient in the event you incessantly depend on seeing 2FA codes seem in your pc through Cellphone Hyperlink.

In response to Rahman, Home windows ought to nonetheless present delicate notifications for Android units the place Cellphone Hyperlink got here preinstalled and has requested a “Companion Gadget Function.” That features Samsung telephones working One UI 6.1.1, however not different Android telephones like Google Pixel or Nothing Telephones, writes Home windows Central.

Rahman wrote in October that customers might get across the notification-hiding function by turning off “Enhanced Notifications” in Android 15’s notifications settings. Nonetheless, doing so additionally turns off issues like reply ideas and will make it simpler once more for malicious apps to collect particulars from all your notifications.