Android Oreo tip: Check your notifications through app icons - Tech News

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as informed in The Oreo operating system allows users of Android devices to now choose to see app notifications not just in a line at the highest of their screens.You can say just by looking at an application's icon on your home monitor if and how many new messages or notifications it contains. Users of older versions of Android always had to rely on pulling down the entire notifications list to see their updates.The number of new, unread messages can be displayed in a small circle, or "badge", at the highest right-hand corner of the icon.To activate this feature, press down on the app icon until a menu appears and navigate to "App info", followed by "App notifications" and then the "Allow notification dot" option. You can alextremely deactivate the feature in that same menu.

Sleep Cycle adds 'snore detection' to its sleep-tracking Android app

Sleep-tracking app Sleep Cycle is bringing a new feature to its Android app to help snoring users track the sleep effects of their rather loud ailment. Sleep Cycle is a great little app that helps you learn about your quality of sleep and helps wake you up at a time where you're more likely to wake up feeling refreshed than groggy. There are a lot of Intelligent home sleep trackers that do something similar by a linked pillow sensor, but Sleep Cycle just opts to use your phone's sensors to gather data, that proves similarly robust. If you don't actually know if you're snoring, the app going to clue you into which as well by the feature enabled. The new feature is available now for the app's Android version.

Windows 10 'Your Phone' app brings photos and text messages from Android to your PC

according to Microsoft isn't all that shy the time it comes to integrating its deskhighest OS, Windows 10, by Google's Android. Now, by the debut of a new Insider build of Windows 10, Microsoft is introducing a new app called 'Your Phone' that lets your devices talk to each other natively. Once both your PC and that app are signed into the same Microsoft account, the app going to require a few permissions from your Android device, and then everything ought begain working. Your Phone app now gives you instant access to your most recent photos and texts from your Android phone. Text your friends, group message, and type by a keyboard—Your Phone app allows you to view, send, and receive the SMS from your Android, on your computer.