It's down to preference. I usually keep the phone on the table when working or watching tv or doing anything other than walking. My Vibrate is set to off, and I might miss the screen lighting up when a notification is there (say you went for a break or were distracted in any way). So it's nice having to see a notification LED showing that you have a missed notification, which is their purpose : to alert you that you missed a notification.
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Why is Apple so damn stubborn to never include notification LED in its iPhone brand?
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It's down to preference. I usually keep the phone on the table when working or watching tv or doing anything other than walking. My Vibrate is set to off, and I might miss the screen lighting up when a notification is there (say you went for a break or were distracted in any way). So it's nice having to see a notification LED showing that you have a missed notification, which is their purpose : to alert you that you missed a notification.
I don't see how it's down to 'preference', since there's no logical reason one would not want the option to have an LED feature.
I keep my phone on the table a lot like you, so want the LED for that reason. I also keep it in my pocket a lot, and would also like to have a LED telling me there's a message when I pull the phone out of my pocket, instead of having to pull it out and then turn it on.
You would think it would be obvious.
In my case, I never have the ringer on on my phone. If for some bizarre reason the iPhone didn't have an audible ringer it would be absurd for me to argue against having it. Yet that is akin to what I see in this thread.
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Are people still going on about this?
I personally, do not need a little blinky LED light. I don't fault those for do. Nor do I call them names for wanting it, as it seems most of those for are calling those for those "against" it. Different strokes for different folks. It's that simple.
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Yet you are the one who has been, clearly, on the side of it is not needed.
Good thing iPhone's do have an audible ringer. If not, you'd probably defend that too. Different strokes and all that...
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Please. Go back and read what I typed over the course of the conversation. Stop trying to discern what I'm for or against just from a few words. Or don't. Use my words out of context to support your cause, since that's what you seem to want to do anyway.
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Lots of people in denial here it seems. It's like going to an Android forum to ask why it doesn't have lock screen notifications or unread count icon badges out of the box. "Because it's not needed", "we don't roll like that around here" etc. Same silly responses. Well it is needed, and so is a notification light on the front of iPhones. Basic functionality.
Lock screen notifications are awesome and they are a big disappointment on the HTC M8. To be honest, I NEED both! Some kind of alert to tell me I need to check the lock screen and then a nice summary on the lock screen to let me know if I need to respond to any of them. This use case MUST be so common that the people arguing against having the option are either trolls or complete idiots. Period. No middle ground.
Just on the last few pages I've seen the word 'blinky' used. Stop it! If you can't imagine a way that apple could pull off a missed notification notification without it being tacky, annoying, etc then you don't have the IQ to participate in this thread.
It's blinky, because that's what it equates to. If Apple implements it, then I'm sure it'll be around the home button or something else. Until then, it's just a blinky light on the phone, telling me I missed a notification. Which, right now for me, is what pushing the home button will do.
And yet again, someone else chimes in with an insult, if you don't believe in their way of doing things. Thanks for reinforcing the behavior, cdaq.
Coming from a Note 3 to the 6+, I actually find that I do miss the blinking LED notifying me of a missed alert. One of the very few things I actually do miss about that phone.
I think what every person who has replied derisively to the OPs post is failing to see (maybe because they are used to the tight constraints of iOS) is that it would be nice to have the.....
OPTION!
If this was a feature that had been included with Apple design I am sure that everyone on this forum would consider it a plus or the norm. There are OPTIONS that allow you to keep the notification light from flashing whenever you want.
Some people would like that option. Quite simply Apple doesn't feel that it fits in with their user experience mandate.
I personally enjoy knowing (without having to go to my phone and pick it up)what kind of notification I have missed by indication of the LED. If it's email, I generally leave it, if it is a SMS I go check it.
All the OP was saying was he wants that option. And face it everyone, Apple has taken some of the best that Android offers and has put it in their iOS just as other OEMs have taken what they have seen as the best of iOS and added it to their lines.
Why not the LED?
OPTION!
If this was a feature that had been included with Apple design I am sure that everyone on this forum would consider it a plus or the norm. There are OPTIONS that allow you to keep the notification light from flashing whenever you want.
Some people would like that option. Quite simply Apple doesn't feel that it fits in with their user experience mandate.
I personally enjoy knowing (without having to go to my phone and pick it up)what kind of notification I have missed by indication of the LED. If it's email, I generally leave it, if it is a SMS I go check it.
All the OP was saying was he wants that option. And face it everyone, Apple has taken some of the best that Android offers and has put it in their iOS just as other OEMs have taken what they have seen as the best of iOS and added it to their lines.
Why not the LED?
It's quite frustrating that you guys keep arguing that it is not needed and forget to point out that IT IS NOT NEEDED FOR YOU PERSONALLY.
Everyone has their personal opinion, you can't state if a feature is needed or not for everyone based on your own damn preferences.
Everyone has their personal opinion, you can't state if a feature is needed or not for everyone based on your own damn preferences.
There are things such as this that I would like on an iPhone because i prefer the simplicity of iOS and would not at this point want to use an Android phone as my go to device. Notification light is definitely one of them. I also do not subscribe to the entire watch notification thing because even if I do end up purchasing a version of the Apple watch, I will definitely not have it on me at all times and would rotate it with some of my other watches. They could do something around the ring or project a light through the touch id or something (don't know fi that would interfere with the functionality of the sensor.
If you've used an Android phone as your daily driver you'd understand why people want it more. I too thought it was gimmicky until I noticed things like "White for gmail, red for missed call, green for hangouts and thus it was really handy. Keeping the backlight on means less battery life. The little LED uses virtually no power and it can let you know if this is an important notification or one that isn't. Plus in meetings/classes it's a bunch easier to just look at the non-distracting LED light and have a small clue as to what the notification is. If wielded properly, it's a powerful tool.
Well, no it's really not that simple. The ringer and vibrate feature analogies sum it up perfectly.
There's no notifications on Android lock screens? I don't recall that.
Yup.
I hope you're not equating having to push the home button with a LED light you can see across the room.
Also don't see why they'd put it around the home button. Up top is where it should go. It's not like there's a dearth of empty, useless space at the top of iphones...
Finally, blinky boy, the light dosesn't HAVE to blink. With Androids you can have them glow unobstrusively and steadily if you prefer -- just like the little red light that's glowing right now on your TV, home phone, laptop, microwave, or whatever else and not bothering you in the least.
I disagree. I've never had a phone with a notification light and it's obvious instantly to me how valuable they can be.
In any case, I went ahead and ordered a LG G2 this afternoon. I'll try it for two weeks and see if I can bear the bigger size and Android lifestyle again. If not, I'll get the iphone 6, which is the phone I'd rather have.
The biggest factor in my decision? Notification lights. (The second biggest factor is that annoying, pointless, and confusing outgoing text sound iphone makes that can't be turned off in non-vibrate mode. Nice work there too, Apple!)
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I'm curious as to which of my posts you're referring to. In none of them did I whine or request a Mac Rumors member to implement a change on an Apple device. That would be silly, I'm with you on that, but a quote like yours only shuts down discussion.
HTC did something with blinkfeed where messages don't show up on the lockscreen, really annoying. Downloaded a new launcher and added nils floating panel. It works. Kind of. I'm hoping the sony z3 behaves better.
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