Several users are reporting that the “ring & notification volume” sliders have been suddenly split into “ring volume” and “notification volume” in Android 14 DP2. This is WITHOUT them flipping any flags, which was previously required to enable separate ring/notification volume.
Google added this feature in Android 13 QPR2, as I first reported in December. The feature is gated by a DeviceConfig flag (“volume_separate_notification” under the “systemui” namespace), but it appears Google remotely toggled the flag for users on DP2.
If you are on Android 13 QPR2 or later, you can manually enable this feature by sending the following shell command:
device_config put systemui volume_separate_notification true
It’s possible this was a mistake and will be reverted soon. It’s hard to tell because it was a server-side change with no announcement from Google. If Android 14 adds a settings toggle to enable/disable linking the volumes, then we’ll know if it’s intentional or not.
You can view the code changes implementing this feature in AOSP: [1] [2] [3]
Google could also add a settings toggle in a future Android 13 QPR3 beta since it’s not like this feature requires making any changes to the API surface which is frozen. I’ll keep an eye out. Please keep this feature around and add a setting toggle for it, Google. People clearly want this feature!
