How to turn on the LED notification light on your iPhone

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By Mick Symons, Rene Ritchie
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How to enable LED Flash for Silent mode

If you want LED Flash to be automatically activated whenever you flick the mute switch on your iPhone, you just have to enable the feature.

  1. Launch Settings from your Home screen.
  2. Tap on General.
  3. Tap on Accessibility.

  1. Tap LED Flash for Alerts.
  2. Tap the switch next to Flash on Silent.

Now you'll receive an LED flash alert whenever the ringer switch is set to silent.

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Updated August 2018: Updated for the latest version of iOS.

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Mick Symons
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