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		carey on Nov 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s... That’s my experience with notifications as well, but I also still miss having a separate LED to show pending notifications when the screen is off.

brundolf on Nov 30, 2020 [–]

I did like having a notification LED, but I don't miss it as much as I thought I would. And anyway, those are becoming less common on Android devices too.

FWIW you can configure your iPhone to flash the camera LED when you get a notification. Not quite the same thing because it isn't passive, but it's something.

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