Has Lollipop’s Heads up notifications annoying you? Here is how to disable Lollipop’s heads up notification and bring back the old ticker notification (notifications on status bar) on your Lollipop phone. You can do this simply by installing a free app called Ticklr. This app disables heads-up notification and restores notifications in the status bar.
One of the new features of Android Lollipop is the Heads-up notifications, which are small floating windows that appear when you receive call, message or app alert. In theory they are useful because they let you respond or dismiss a notification without leaving the app you are in, but in real life they are too invasive and annoying, especially when you receive many messages, for example from WhatsApp.
Android L introduced a new notification feature called Heads Up notification. Like iOS 8’s Interactive Notifications, you will get floating notification on any screen regardless of what you are doing on the screen. Here is how to get this feature on any Android phone without root access.