How to use Notification highlights on the Samsung Galaxy S26 series

Last Update date : Feb 27. 2026

The Notification highlights feature on the Galaxy S26 series automatically prioritises your notifications, showing important and time-sensitive alerts at the top of the notification panel. When you receive chat notifications, it also provides a short summary so you can stay focused and get the most important information quickly.

Key features of Notification highlights

Prioritise notifications

Prioritise notifications helps show important notifications first to make sure you don't miss them. Only notifications in the same language as your phone's system language can be prioritised.

The importance of notifications is analysed based on user information and notification content. All data used for this feature is processed only on the device.

Summarise notifications

Summarise notifications provides summaries of conversational notifications without requiring you to open the notification or messaging app. This feature applies only to conversational notifications and supports the same languages as your phone's system language.

Note:

  • It provides AI-generated summaries based on unread notifications.
  • Summaries may not always be accurate.
  • Summaries may not be provided when your battery is low or when Power saving is on.
  • Supported apps: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Google Messages, WhatsApp Business, Snapchat, Telegram, Samsung Messages, Zalo, Rakuten Viber Messenger, imo, Discord, MAX, KakaoTalk, WeChat, Signal, imo HD, Zangi, Plus Messenger, imo beta, aka, imo Lite, MiChat, Telegram X, Zello PTT Walkie Talkie, Messenger Kids, Graph Messenger, VK Messenger, Bip, GroupMe, Azar, Teams, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, QQ, Visual Voicemail.
  • Supported apps for Notification highlights are subject to change.
  • Supported languages: English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Polish, Vietnamese, Hindi.

How to set Notification highlights

Follow the steps below to activate Prioritise notifications and Summarise notifications in Notification highlights.

Settings app highlighted Settings app highlighted

Step 1. Tap Settings.

Notifications option in Settings is highlighted Notifications option in Settings is highlighted

Step 2. Select Notifications.

Notification highlights option is highlighted Notification highlights option is highlighted

Step 3. Select Notification highlights.

Prioritise notifications and Summarise notifications are highlighted Prioritise notifications and Summarise notifications are highlighted

Step 4. You can activate Prioritise notifications and Summarise notifications independently or at the same time.

Activate the prioritise notifications toggle Activate the prioritise notifications toggle

Step 5. Activate Prioritise notifications.

Activate the summarise notifications toggle on Activate the summarise notifications toggle on

Step 6. Activate Summarise notifications.

Note:

  • You can enable or disable Prioritise notifications and Summarise notifications for each app individually in its settings.
  • Menu names, paths, and screen layouts may vary depending on your device model, software version, or app version.

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