How to turn off flash notifications on iPhone? Easy steps

Have you ever wondered why your iPhone’s flash goes off every time you receive a notification? It is called Flash notifications. Well, iPhones have been designed in such a way to assist those with audio or visual impairments in a way to let them know when they have received a notification. In a certain situation like this, the flash going off can be seen as helpful for example in cases of emergency when you fail to see the notification on your phone.

But at times when you are in a public gathering, seeing your flash go off constantly might trigger the people around you and is not so pleasant. With very simple steps as we will be discussing below, you can disable this feature on your iPhone.

How to turn off flash notifications on iPhone?

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Choose the Accessibility option
3. Scroll further and select the audio/visual option
4. You will see an option called ‘LED flash for alerts.
5. Move the slider button by swiping it to the left.

This will disable the feature and if you do not see any green button near the slider option, it means you have successfully disabled the feature. This feature is very easy to enable and disable and is not a permanent feature.

These steps that have been mentioned above will not interfere with other features that use the flash like the flashlight or the camera flash. It only disables the LED flash from occurring every time there is an alert although you must remember that this will only work for those notifications that come on your iPhone and will not make any changes to those notifications or alerts associated with the message’s app or any third-party apps and only that the iPhone classifies as an alert.

How to enable Flash notifications on iPhone?

If you wish to turn them back on, simply follow the same pathway of steps and turn the slider to the right which is indicated with a green shade near the slider button. Since the LED flash is quite bright and might disturb the people around you in case you find yourself in a dark environment like a theatre, it is advised to turn this feature or you may want to turn down brightness or make sure that the phone is facing downwards.

How to turn off Flash notifications on iPhone 13

With the same steps as above mentioned for an iPhone, you can enable and disable the flash notifications for your iPhone 13 as well.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. Choose the Accessibility option
3. Scroll further and select the audio/visual option
4. You will see an option called ‘LED flash for alerts.
5. Move the slider button by swiping it to the left.

How to turn off flash notifications on Android?

Check whether your phone supports the flash notifications, mostly this is available for those android versions above 7.0. If your phone supports flash notifications, follow these steps.

1. Select the settings to option on your phone and choose accessibility.
2. Select a hearing option and choose the flash notification in case it is not displayed with sliders next to it.
3. You will now be able to see two options named camera light and screen.
4. Move the sliders (whichever is tuned on either one of them or both) to the left to turn off the flash notifications.

How to enable flash notifications on Android?

Similar to how you disable the flash notifications, follow the same steps but when you reach the 4^th step, make sure you slide the camera light and screen options to the right or whichever you wish to be turned on, to enable the flash notifications. Remember that this will work only if your android version supports the same.

Do Flash notifications consume more battery?

Any notification be it the one that uses flash, sound, vibration, etc. consumes battery but what determines the amount is how many notifications one receives in a stipulated time period. There is no significant usage in the consumption of battery if there are minimal notifications although it can consume a considerable amount of battery if flash notifications are allotted to all kinds of alerts.

Are flash notifications bad for phone batteries?

Again., It depends on how many notifications pop up on a daily basis. If the flash notification is on for every other pop-up or alert on your phone for example, from as small as weather updates to any kind of message, it might drain the battery in the longer run.

How to disable all notifications on iPhone?

To disable all kinds of notifications on your phone, follow these simple easy steps

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Select the notifications option.
3. All of your apps will be displayed and you can now select each app and disable the notifications for that app by turning off the green shade of the slider right next to it.
4. Now you can turn off all notifications for any or all apps.

In case you wish to disable all notifications on your iPhone, you can opt for the do not disturb mode where all the notifications including calls get paused until you enable them

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone
2. You will a list of functions, tap on the does not disturb option.
3. Slide the green shade to the left next to the do not disturb option to suspend all notifications.
4. Now, tap the option ‘always’ under the silence list on the same page.
5. You can select the contacts of those from whom you may want to take calls even if all the notifications are suspended, under the phone list on the same page.

How to disable all notifications on Android?

You can disable all notifications on your lock screen and for a certain app(s).

1. Open the Settings app on your phone ad click on the app and notifications option.
2. Select the notifications option
3. You will see an option called notification on the lock screen or on the lock screen under the lock screen list.
4. Select doesn’t show notifications.

This will disable all of your notifications on your lock screen. To disable the notifications for the certain app(s),

1. Open the Settings app and select apps and notifications
2. You will a list of your recently used apps. To view more, select all apps under that.
3. Click on the app you want to delete and turn off the notification slider next to it.

This will disable the notifications for those apps.

Hope you find this information useful. Please let us know if you find anything otherwise, we can always find out and update the content for you.