The notification panel on modern smartphones often feels like a digital jungle. It is a mix of crucial alerts, persistent updates, and low-priority spam. Well, Samsung is finally addressing this chaos in its next major update, One UI 8.5, by introducing a smart feature designed to bring order to the clutter: Priority Notifications.
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about this improvement. A leak this week revealed that the company was working on the new feature. Fortunately, we didn’t have to wait long for a proper first look.
Samsung’s Galaxy AI is coming to your alerts with One UI 8.5 Priority Notifications
According to SammyGuru’s report, Priority Notifications on One UI 8.5 will use artificial intelligence—likely Galaxy AI—to ensure you never miss a truly important alert again. The concept behind the feature is straightforward: “Notifications that may be important will appear above other notifications to make sure you don’t miss them.” However, the implementation is what matters most.
Instead of just reorganizing the stack, Priority Notifications actively highlights the important ones. In the leaked images, these prioritized alerts are stacked cleanly at the very top of the notification panel.
They also feature a subtle glow and adopt the gradient visual style commonly associated with Galaxy AI features. This visual distinction ensures that even in a moment of hurried glance, the user immediately recognizes which alerts demand their attention. Plus, Samsung gives users the control to choose which apps qualify for this prioritized treatment.
Privacy and the future timeline
The integration of on-device intelligence is key to the system’s speed and security. All content processing used to determine notification priority happens directly on the device. This ensures that the system works efficiently without sending sensitive notification data to external cloud servers.
Ultimately, Priority Notifications is a subtle but significant quality-of-life improvement. By using AI to intelligently sift through the noise, One UI 8.5 promises to make the notification panel a more useful tool, rather than a source of distraction and missed messages.
Regarding One UI 8.5, leaks suggest the beta program will start soon. However, recent reports indicate a slight delay related to the potential halt of the Galaxy S26 series launch.
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