Android 16’s Live Updates won’t work with your favorite music player, and that’s a bummer
July 3, 2025
2 min read
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Android Authority

Android 16 introduces Live Updates, a new feature that elevates ongoing notifications to the status bar. Media apps use a dedicated Media style template, which is not one of the specific styles that can be promoted to a Live Update. Switching styles would cause media apps to lose key playback controls