If you’re an owner of multiple Android devices and tend to use the same apps across all of them, managing notifications can become a bit of a mess. You might dismiss a notification from a shopping app on your phone, but then see it again when you switch to your tablet or even another phone. With that in mind, Android 15 brought an option to sync your notification dismissals between Pixel devices.
Pixel phones make it easier to manage notifications across devices
With the Android 15 update, Pixel phones received the “Dismiss notifications across Pixel devices” option. As its name suggests, it allows notifications dismissed on one device to also be dismissed on the others. That helps maintain a consistent and less frustrating experience when managing your pending notifications between Pixel phones and tablets.
That said, the feature has one limitation that can be especially annoying when you’re not at home. It does the work at your Google account level, so it needs to be connected to the internet. This isn’t a problem on modern mobile devices that support both Wi-Fi and mobile data. However, you can only use the “Dismiss notifications across Pixel devices” feature when connected to a Wi-Fi network.
In other words, if you go out and dismiss a lot of notifications while using mobile data, when you come home, you’ll see them again on your other mobile devices. This type of limitation is common in apps and cloud storage services. After all, uploading lots of high-resolution pictures and photos all the time could quickly use up all your data. But in a feature based simply on sending remote commands, such a mandatory limitation doesn’t make much sense.
Android 15’s Pixel notification dismissal sync may get an option to work under mobile data
It seems that Google has noticed the issue and is working on removing the limitation. In fact, Android Authority’s finding suggests that the Mountain View giant will allow you to choose whether the notification dismissal sync occurs only on Wi-Fi or also when using mobile data.
The source found references to a switch designed to enable the feature when using mobile data. The strings are hidden in the latest Google Device Connectivity Service app (v1.0.687093228_arm64-v8a_release). As it stands, the switch still has a lot of work to do to become functional. However, since it’s not a very complex feature, Google could implement it at any time. That said, there are no details yet on when Google will begin rolling out the option to all eligible Pixel devices.
