I turned on notification summaries on my Pixel 9 Pro, and it was less chaotic than expected - ZDNET

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Tech > Services & Software > Operating Systems > Mobile OS > Android Your Pixel can show AI summaries of your notifications on the lock screen now - but there are a few caveats, including a potential privacy issue. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Google is always trying to make Android a more user-friendly and efficient mobile OS. With the advent of AI, some features can be simplified in ways that would not have been possible without the help of local LLMs. One such feature is the new Android notification summaries. This feature aims to summarize longer messages from popular messaging apps (such as Google Messages) and present the summaries on your lock screen (not when you’re using your phone). There are a couple of caveats to this. First, because the summarization happens on-device, the power required excludes the Pixel 9a, which leaves the 9, 9 Pro, 10, and 10 Pro. That’s not a long list of devices, but it’s very possible the feature will eventually trickle down to other devices (so long as they have the hardware capable of doing on-board