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What is a nifty little feature modern gadgets have lost? (lemmy.world)

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For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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[-] Aggravationstation@lemmy.world 68 points 10 months ago

The notification light would also let you know what type of notification it was by colour on my old Samsung Note.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Wait they took that away? I have an S9 and I rely on this to know whos messaging me. Blue is textra, purple is whatsapp, white is insta, green is signal.

[-] DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 23 points 10 months ago

Because taking away features passes for innovation these days

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Hey man, it takes courage!

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Or take it away and charge a subscription fee to have it back in some form or another.

[-] cjsolx@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I had an S8 a couple years back and upgraded to an S10 when it first came out. The notification light went away and it was a huge bummer. I now have a Pixel 7 and it doesn't have it either, so I've learned to live without it.

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

An app called aodNotify brings this back for you if you don't have an iPhone. May take a little tweaking to get everything how you want but it's very customizable

[-] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Is there anyway to use this without having the full always on display? Having all of that, which includes notifications, sort of defeats the purpose

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I had an always on display that illuminated the outside of the display when I received a notification but otherwise stayed off, and I’m on iPhone, so I can’t imagine you don’t have more options on android than I did.

[-] fastandcurious@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Which app?

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

I was jailbroken, I can’t remember the name of it sadly.

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Sony still does that.

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