When it comes to notifications, it's overwhelmingly easy for your lock screen to get swarmed with little boxes pinging for your attention. It can easily drown out information you actually want to see.

Google seems to be paying attention and has released a new tool for Chrome on your phone meant to help quiet the number of notifications you receive. And it's based on a feature that already exists.

Android 11, released in 2020, introduced a feature that revokes notification permissions from apps you haven't opened in a while. Essentially, Google is adding this feature to Chrome Safety Check, launched in 2024, which was built to "give you even more control over your personal data."

At the time, it would remove camera, microphone, and location permissions for sites and auto-detect spam, but

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