What kinds of notifications will I receive?
When a new device is added to your Google account, you’ll get a notification in your mobile device’s home screen telling you about it. Additionally, you’ll start getting notifications about suspicious account activity on the same screen. If you agree that the activity looks suspicious, you can review it by clicking on “Review Account Activity” directly from the notification. Here, you can see what device was added to your account and where it was added. The alerts will be sent out in real-time because there’s no time to waste if your Google accounts have been compromised. If you don’t recognize the device or location, you can protect your phone and accounts by changing your password. If the new addition is familiar to you, you can simply dismiss the notification.

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What’s the change?
Before, instead of getting an update directly on your phone, Google would send a message to your email account. Google decided to add the notifications directly to the phone’s main screen because the company thought that the email messages were being ignored. Google says with its updated alert type — called a native alert — users will be four times more likely to look at the device’s log-in information.

How do I start adding these updates to my phone?
You don’t have to do anything to start getting these alerts from Google. Whenever you sign into your Google account on an unfamiliar device in a strange location, you’ll get an onscreen notification. The system is particularly helpful in protecting your accounts when paired with Google’s two-factor authentications for your Android devices.

If you want to have complete security on your Android phone, make sure you’ve downloaded PSafe Total. PSafe’s Antivirus protection fixes security breaches automatically by scanning your phone files and SD card at all hours. For full phone security, keep your eye on your Google security updates and add PSafe protection.

If You Have Android 4.3 Jellybean or Above

1. Press and hold a blank section of your home screen. This will bring up your Widgets option.
2. Tap and hold the widget labelled “Settings shortcut.”
3. Drag this widget onto your phone’s home screen.
4. Once you’ve done this, you’ll be asked which settings screen you want to link to. When prompted, choose “Notification log.”
5. This shortcut, then, will always take you to your list of notifications, with your most recent notifications at the top.

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Pushbullet

If you don’t have those versions of Android, install Pushbullet to retrieve your lost notifications. The Pushbullet app makes sure you never miss a notification by collecting all of your notifications and phone calls on your computer. You can also text and receive texts on your computer, reply to messages from a variety of messaging apps, and share links and files between all of your devices.

Desktop Notifications

Like Pushbullet, Desktop Notifications does what its name promises: it gives you notifications from your Android devices on your PC. This app lets you sort by most recent notifications, as well as by individual messaging programs, like Google Hangouts and Facebook Messenger. While the app is functional for you, it’s also part of a study that collects anonymous data about how users interact with notifications. To use Desktop Notifications, you also need to install the companion browser extension for Google Chrome.