Every smartphone has a built-in flashlight, but back in the day, many Android phones featured another hardware light: an LED that shined whenever you received a new notification or alert—a gentle ...

Do you miss the days when Android phones had a front-facing LED for notifications? If so, do you wish to get it on your current Android smartphone? Well, it turns out you can get a notification LED on ...

Android 14 Developer Preview 2 includes a “Flash notifications” function that will let Pixel owners emulate the long-lost notification LED in the upcoming build. One of the most notable features that ...

As many of you know by now, the Android 14 Developer Preview 2 is out. We’ve already covered the news, but new bits and pieces are constantly popping up, like the one we’re here to talk about. Android ...

The OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro do not have a notification LED light, but you can fix that, sort of. There is an app in the Google Play Store that allows you to add a notification LED light to the OnePlus 8 ...

Notification LEDs aren’t exactly Android smartphones’ most exciting accoutrement, but they’re undeniably useful — it’s a lot harder to ignore a blinking diode, after all, than an impermanent buzz or ...

Samsung is experimenting with a LED strip on the hinges of its future foldable phones. The strip would act as a notification light but also a chief, defining design characteristic for Samsung’s ...

Google may be developing “Magic Actions” for Android, an AI-powered enhancement to notification actions that could leverage the Gemini AI model. This new feature, which we spotted in Android 16 code, ...

Google announced on Tuesday that it is releasing a slew of Android 16 updates, along with new general Android and accessibility features. The rollout of the new Android 16 features, which are first ...