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  Here is walk-through of the 3 favourite new features in Android 11.   Conversation Notifications. The previous versions of android would have notifications flowing through inconsistently, timely messages would be hidden under less important app notifications. In Android 11 however, notifications for conversations can be categorised into three’s where the most critical messages always slide in at the top.   These categorisation tiers also apply to specific conversations within different messaging apps. (Notably, these are referred to as Conversations in the Android 11 settings panel.) For instance, you can choose whether a beloved group text in Android Messages gets priority over the ongoing thread with your immediate family in WhatsApp. Long press on an individual conversation in the notification shade to categorise it. If it’s classified a Priority, you’ll see a tiny, unique icon indicator populate in the status bar when there’s a new message within that specific thread.

The US Senate and other governments have for long progressed a crackdown on secure messaging that values the federal governments need to be snooping on messaging applications of device users for ‘National Security’ purposes. Ironically, even with this legislation's currently in place, messaging technologies have attracted more users because of their guarantee to security. iPhone users sending messages to other third party platforms like WhatsApp have something great coming that is worth smiling about. For WhatsApp’s vulnerability and iPhone’s top priority to security and usability, there is going to be a fine balance and fixes put in place to achieve the latter with Signal. Signal which is the most renowned secure messaging platform so far is offering the update in iPhone users. Even with the main problem of Signal for iPhone users being unable to transfer messaging logs when you upgrade, Signal has settled this and users will not have to feel the pain of starting over again