ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?
ELI5: Why did LED notification lights silently got removed from phone?
They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.
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Their absence encourages you to check your phone more often, which means you'll unlock it and look at some content more often, which means as revenue for someone.
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You just wrinkled my brain right now.
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Being honest I think the opposite of this is more likely true. Seeing a flashing indicator for all the notifications my phone “thinks” are important is going to make me more likely to constantly check my phone. Barring that I check when I want to. And with the new passive display modes I can glance and decide whether to even unlock or not.
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passive display
This is the real answer for OP. Those lights were replaced. Maybe OP (and maybe me as well, I haven't really thought about it) would prefer to still have the notification LED, but to the hardware manufacturers they replaced those with something "cooler".
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It’s a nice conspiracy theory. But unlikely. Who gets the additional review?
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For some random hardware producer I don't see how that would be favourable.
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Genuinely wouldn't be surprised if this was the truth. The tactics these companies employ are both putridly-covert, yet brilliantly executed - especially so if it also saves a few cents.
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In Apple's case it's a subtle encouragement to buy their watch.
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I don’t believe the iPhone ever had an LED notification light. The iPhone existed well before the watch did, as well.
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I shouldn't have doubted Apple's campaign for minimalism functionality
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It never did, indeed. However, there's an accessibility function to use the flashlight like an old school LED.
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I hate how correct you are about this.
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