How to Enable “notification Cooldown” on Your Google Pixel
While receiving notifications on your phone is generally useful, there are times when they happen too often and too quickly, such as after you turn off Airplane mode or when your family messaging gets cut off while you’re in the middle of a meeting. On Android, you can turn on silent mode, snooze, or turn off notifications entirely—or you can rely on the new notification recovery feature, which temporarily lowers the literal and figurative volume of your alerts so you don’t have to manage these modes yourself.
We ‘ve known this feature was coming for a long time, and it’s finally arriving in Android 15 with the March 2025 update .
How notification cooldown works
Notification recovery time controls the flow of alerts over a short period of time, temporarily lowering your device’s volume and minimizing on-screen pop-ups. Recharging can take up to two minutes.
Notifications don’t disappear completely when notification cooldown is turned on, so you don’t have to worry about missing important alerts. You can still view them in the notification shade by pulling down from the top of your phone screen. Calls, alarms, emergency alerts, and priority conversations will continue to occur during recovery.
Unfortunately, there’s no way to customize the cooldown time for notifications—such as the alert threshold, the duration of which, and which apps are cooled—other than turning the feature on or off.
How to enable (or disable) notification recovery time
To turn notification timeout on or off on your Pixel device, go to Settings and go to Notifications > Notification Timeout (under General). Use the switch next to “Use notification recovery time” to turn this feature on or off. Notification cooldown may be turned on by default , so you can opt-out if you prefer not to use it.
If you don’t see this option in your phone’s settings, make sure you’ve updated your device to the latest version of Android 15.