If you're the kind of person who tends to have multiple conversations at once, hopping between your messaging apps and whatever else you're doing, you know how tedious it can be to switch between them ...

If you're using one of the most common apps to manage text chats on an Android phone, you'll see a small blue dot appear next to certain conversations. In other cases, a different symbol, such as a ...

In Android 11, Google is finally bringing them to the forefront. Even the first Android 11 developer preview has them enabled for certain messaging apps. Enabling Bubbles takes a second or two, but ...