In Android 15, Google developers have implemented several new features aimed at increasing user privacy. Against this backdrop, Microsoft’s Connect to Phone app, designed to sync smartphones with Windows computers, has begun notifying users that some sensitive notifications from Android 15 devices will not appear.
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Android 15 includes a new privacy feature that automatically classifies some incoming notifications, such as those with two-factor authentication codes, as sensitive and blocks third-party apps from accessing them. This option may be useful if the user has accidentally given some malicious application access to notifications received on the device. However, this may be inconvenient for those who are used to receiving two-factor authentication codes on their computer through the Link to Phone app.
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According to the source, Windows will still show sensitive notifications from Android devices that had the Link to Phone app pre-installed and asking for the “companion device role.” These devices include, for example, Samsung smartphones with One UI 6.1.1, but not other devices such as Google Phone. You can get around this by disabling the Enhanced Notifications option in Android 15’s notification settings. However, this can also make it easier for malicious apps to collect data from incoming notifications.