This is something I can't comprehend - how can this not be useful?! It liberates you from checking your phone constantly.
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This is something I can't comprehend - how can this not be useful?! It liberates you from checking your phone constantly.
I have always wondered why they did not use the home button ring as a notification alert. It could fade in and out every few minutes and have a RGB light for different notifications.
I don't want to sound like a fanboy. I mean what is an "apple- like idea" anyway. I used to be in the camp that wanted a notification light. But I have it on my s7 and have started to find it annoying. I don't miss it a bit on my 7 plus. I loved it on my crackberry.
The counter argument is that it is a minimal amount of effort to turn your screen on and check that you received a notification. A secondary counter argument is that you can also hear your notification arrive.
The idea that anyone would place their phone down, walk away out of viewing and hearing range for a while and then NOT check their phone is foreign to them. Again, the counter argument of checking your screen.
The idea that a notification light showing that you received a notification while away from the phone and therefore do not HAVE to pick up the phone and turn the screen on is entirely alien as well.
Lastly, some of them will just tell you to get an Apple Watch. Because everyone has an extra $300-$10,000 lying around for ANOTHER device.
It's all been hashed out and rehashed here before. It's just like the case/no case argument. There's very little middle ground.
But the thing is, with your S7 you have the option to turn it off (Settings -> Display -> LED indicator), whereas the iPhone doesn't have this feature at at all.
Used to be very pro notification light - in fact, this was something that I missed the most when leaving Android for Apple. Now? I don't want a notification light because every time I see it, I HAVE TO CHECK my phone. Now? I just consistently check my phone when I want.
You ever start running your own business, this will change quick. You make your clients wait, they go elsewhere.
I have a watch that gives me notifications (and much much more) when my phone isn't around. That being said, my work phone is a galaxy device, the lights are hugely annoying to me, enough to where my work phone is turned on it's face the majority of the time.
your 100% right i use my phone for business and i would never buy a phone that doesn't have it. i can't tell you how much money the led notifier has made in the past. i have gotten so many compliments from my clients who say something like. i went you because you are fastest to answer any and all my questions. and i attribute that directly to the fact i have that led notifier.
I am 100% against the thought if a little blinky light... but if you can convince Tim Cook, I'll learn to live with it.
In the mean time, why not review the other threads on the subject? Here are a few to get you started:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/no-front-facing-led-notification-light.1789896/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-7-notification-light.1991693/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/led-ring-around-home-button.1992218/
I am sure you can find more if you search the forums.
It's not like Apple's gonna implement what we want, even if you show your utmost desire.
They think it's useless for them so they didn't bother at all.
I had this before on my Blackberry but haven't been useful since even if I look at it, I would still end up unlocking my phone to check other stuffs so I think it's useless for me (not mentioning the .5% battery consumption).
Also, iOS10 has raise to wake feature so I think LED notification is not gonna happen anymore
IMO, it never was going to happen. Since Apple has made the iPhone for 10 years without adding Mr Blinky, it's never going to happen.
There is a rumor out there that the next iPhone (2017) will have OLED screens.
If you understand that an OLED screen has the ability to light specific individual pixels rather than the entire screen, then the possibility of a notification indicator occuring might be something to consider.
It may even be a killer feature combination with Raise to Wake.
Being an X Blackberry user I remember how nice it was to have notification lights. It was programmable for color and blink speed as I remember. For years I have wished for Apple to just give us a simple system but after a while, I realized it is not going to happen.
With the rumored iPhone 8 having a glass back it would be so easy to put a couple of tiny LEDs in there but I know it is not going to happen.
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This ^ Exactly. Kinda like the Google Moto X - it would only turn on a few pixels in the middle of the phone (because it was OLED) and let you know what notifications you had without waking the entire phone. It had basically 0 impact on battery life. It also had a day-dream mode that was kinda cool too.
If the iPhone 2017 had this, I'd be pretty stoked about that (like you said, combined with Rise to Wake which I use all the time on my 6s+).
Right you were. Thanks for the heads up haha