The floating notification design isn’t yet available for everyone, and it appears to be just a server-side switch that Google activates in stages.

Notifications provide the ability for services and applications to communicate information in real time, not only to move data but also to trigger actions for users and applications.

As you can see, this semi-transparent design allows for more of the lock screen wallpaper to be visible. It also allows you to see the top bar or any other UI element at the top of apps when a ...

As for other changes, app icons in the notification panel look different; they are usually totally white icons inside a colored circle. I think they're using the same artwork as the status bar ...

Alongside new design changes, iOS 26 beta 4 also re-enables Apple Intelligence notification summaries for the News & ...

Notification Center In this release, the Notification Center flyout tweaks the visibility of app names in notifications, and the toast notification design has been updated to include an acrylic ...

As John Herrman wrote in a New York Times article last year titled “How Tiny Red Dots Took Over Your Life,” the modern-day notification design has been refined and calibrated over the years to ...