How to Disable Sensitive Notification on Android 15

In this guide, we will show you a couple of methods to disable the Sensitive Notifications on your device running Android 15. We have witnessed a slew of intriguing additions to the latest OS build, with the likes of Partial Screen Sharing, Notification Cooldown, Lockscreen widgets, Battery Health percentage, App Archive, revamped Bluetooth menu, Private Space, the ability to save App Pair, and Privacy Sandbox being the talk of the town. On the flip side though, there have been a few questionable feature implementations as well.

One among which is the new Sensitive Notifications. As is evident from its name, the Sensitive Notification feature prevents non-permissible apps and services from being able to read sensitive content on the screen. As a result of this, malicious apps as well as the sneaky ones that try to read these data [such as OTPs] will no longer be able to do so. Unfortunately, even the genuine apps are not able to read these messages, thereby resulting in quite a few issues for the end users.

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They had already reported this bug back when Android 15 was in the beta phase but it seems that the Silicon Valley giant had let it slip from its hands. Adding to the misery, even non-sensitive notifications are being blocked by the OS. Not only that, numerous smartwatches , including the ones from Garmin, have also been affected by this “issue”. As far as the reasoning behind this issue is concerned, Android genius Mishaal Rehman has brilliantly explained this scenario:

It’s because your app is considered an “untrusted” Notification Listener service hence it isn’t allowed to read sensitive notifications, like ones that hold OTP codes. Your app needs the new RECEIVE_SENSITIVE_NOTIFICATIONS permission which was added in Android 15. However, the permission has a protection level of signature|role, and the only roles the permission is granted to are COMPANION_DEVICE_WATCH (ie. watch companion apps), SYSTEM_AUTOMOTIVE_PROJECTION (like Android Auto), SYSTEM_NOTIFICATION_INTELLIGENCE (Android System Intelligence), SYSTEM_UI, COMPANION_DEVICE_COMPUTER (like Cross-Device Services), COMPANION_DEVICE_GLASSES, and HOME (the default launcher).

Now that you are aware of the reasoning behind this issue, let’s make you aware of a couple of nifty methods through which you can address this concern once and for all. Follow along.

How to Disable Sensitive Notification on Android 15 FIX 1: Via Settings menu FIX 2: Via ADB Commands