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ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.

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[–] noughtnaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For just a fraction of a second I considered showing you, by taking a screen shot... 🤦 I'm my defence, I'm suppressed to be asleep now.

Many phones used to have - some still have - a separate LED facing you that could light up to notify you of, uh, notifications. The first generation android phones just had green LEDs, eventually they all supported colour as well. Some OS'es or apps enabled you to set up per-app colour, blink/fade, and pattern configurations. Super neat, I was a huge fan.

On most modern phones [such apps] (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow) rarely work anymore, but on my OnePlus 5 I still have different colours for different notifications.

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

thanks for explanation

if this feature got rare around 2010 or so, then i had no way of ever seeing such a phone in the wild