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Why the hell doesn't the home button blink for notifications yet?

Should the home button blink when you get a notification?

  • Yes!

    Votes: 330 77.3%

  • No!

    Votes: 97 22.7%
  • Total voters
    427
Calidude

Calidude

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Really now. Nobody puts their iPhone face down and nobody wants to be pressing the home button each time to see if anything new has come in. Why hasn't the home button been used for notifications since say...the iPhone 3G?

This is long overdue. I need to see this happen in iPhone 5.

EDIT: Obviously this feature would be optional, reasonably colored and modestly lit so don't freak out with your reply acting like you're going to have an incredibly bright light blaring at all hours that you can't turn off like so many drama queens on this forum will certainly be tempted to do.
 
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Because it doesn't. :apple: hasn't done it, so we don't have it. I doubt there is enough room for it, and that would be one more thing to kill battery life.
 
Personally, I don't want any kind of LED light indicating notification, etc. I sleep with the phone near me, so that going off all night would irritate me.

That being said, if an indiator light was forced upon me, putting it in the home button is a creative way to do it.
 
I see that we have now moved passed the "when will invitations be sent out" threads to the inevitable "why doesn't the iPhone X have/do this" and "I'm disappointed" threads, though I will say this is a week earlier than usual (normally people complaining after the keynote, not before).
 
I would love an LED notification!! I sold my iPhone 4 a few weeks ago (knowing something new was coming out) and ever since then I have been using a palm pixie and I Love the LED notification. So helpful. And if you don't want to use it there is always an option of turning it off! :D
 
DeaconGTG said:
Personally, I don't want any kind of LED light indicating notification, etc. I sleep with the phone near me, so that going off all night would irritate me.

That being said, if an indiator light was forced upon me, putting it in the home button is a creative way to do it.
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Obviously it wouldn't light up enough to bother you when you sleep. Just enough to see it in the daytime with a cursory glance.
 
I think that would be cool, like if its a thin ring around the home button that flashes for notifications.
 
I really hope there's a possibility of some type of notification light anywhere on the front of the next iPhone. I'd be ecstatic if it were the home button.
 
DeaconGTG said:
Personally, I don't want any kind of LED light indicating notification, etc. I sleep with the phone near me, so that going off all night would irritate me.

That being said, if an indiator light was forced upon me, putting it in the home button is a creative way to do it.
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A tasteful indicator, like the sleep indicator on portable Macs, could be useful. I wouldn't want the entire home button to glow though. Perhaps small dot opposite of the front camera for symmetry.
 
Would be an awesome feature. They should include an option to turn off the light though
 
Kyotoma said:
Daytime meaning sunlight? If the light is bright enough to see in sunlight, then it would be more than bright enough to wake a light sleeper.
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Daytime meaning during the daytime in a room without direct sunlight on the phone. Any LED visible with the sun directly on it is way too bright for any phone.
 
Calidude said:
Really now. Nobody puts their iPhone face down and nobody wants to be pressing the home button each time to see if anything new has come in. Why hasn't the home button been used for notifications since say...the iPhone 3G?

This is long overdue. I need to see this happen in iPhone 5.
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Because it has no light in it...
 
wordoflife said:
Would be an awesome feature. They should include an option to turn off the light though
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Of course they should, and they would. I'm not saying the LED should be mandatory. It should be enabled by default and easily disabled in general settings.
 
Although useful I tend to find indicator lights annoying. The only time I really liked it was on my Katana Eclipse X. The phone would pulse colors.


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Zepaw said:
Although useful I tend to find indicator lights annoying. The only time I really liked it was on my Katana Eclipse X. The phone would pulse colors.


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You find indicator lights annoying and you thought THAT, with its pulsing colors, was likable?
 
Thats what the #1 on the call icon on the invitations mean!!!:)


ID LOVE a notification light, especially if it could be turned off so everyone cant use it as an excuse for whats eating battery.

I have a sickness of checking my damn home button WAAaaay too much.
 
gpat said:
Doesn't iOS 5 have this with the LED Flash? It's obtrusive as hell though.
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Yes, I'm hoping that that feature is crappy for iPhone 4 users but works on the home button for iPhone 5 users. If anything, that would be one hell of a sales tactic since current iPhone 4 users would say: "hey, that's how it's supposed to work!" and buy buy buy.

Besides, nobody puts their phone face down.
 
I think this feature would be great.

They could link the feature to the alarm clock. So if you set an alarm for the morning you could choose to disable the LED until after the alarm goes off.
 
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