Hello everyone! I am so excited for today's video because it is a hearing hack video.
I hope you stick around to the end of this video because if you do,
you are going to be an expert at iPhone flash notifications. I'm going to review how to set
these up and the myriad of ways that this can be useful. If you haven't already, please like
this video and subscribe to my channel. I look forward to making more great content for you.
If you're new my name is Emily. I created Definite Hearing as a way to increase
awareness for the deaf and hard of hearing. I'm hard of hearing myself. I wear two hearing aids,
resound Enzo 3Ds the BTE or behind the ear model and I love them so so so I just want to say
that today's video was inspired by someone who watched and commented on one of my videos they
asked me about a ring doorbell. And if there was any way to make ring notifications visual.
Guess what? There is. Especially if you have an iPhone, I have an iPhone myself and so if you
have an Android maybe you have a hack for this. If so please let me know in the comments below. But
for you iPhone users today is your lucky day. You can turn notifications from your phone in
to visual cues using your camera flash on the back of your phone. So how do you go about doing this?
Open up your iPhone to your homescreen go to settings. Then select accessibility.
Within accessibility, you can select audio visual, and within there towards the bottom. You can turn
on LED flash notifications. Go ahead and activate that. I want to point something really important
out that the flash will only work if your phone is locked. If you're on your phone
and a notification comes in, you should be able to see it visually. But if you're not on your phone,
be sure that your phone is locked and that your camera is facing up. So that if you get
a notification you can see your phone's flash. Say you want to put your phone in your pocket
ensure that the phone vibrator is on because you'll most likely notice the vibrator before
you notice the sound. We just have to be savvy and mindful of the events and the way that our
phone is positioned to be able to receive these notifications. But if we pay attention to it,
and we have our settings right, we can use this in so many different ways. That is just one
way you can activate your LED notifications on your iPhone. Here is a more simple way go to the
homescreen on your iPhone. So like settings, do a little swipe up to reveal the settings search bar
in the setting search bar search led notifications. This will bring up the audio visual
accessibility screen right away. This is a more simple way to turn on those led notifications.
So what can these LED notifications be used for? So many things? I always thought they
were just used for texts, but they can be used for anything that has a notification.
It could be a notification for the fact that your favorite YouTube subscriber
just posted a video so if you haven't subscribed, definitely subscribe now and
make sure your notifications are on hitting that notification bell. You can get flash notifications
for notification for Instagram. You can get notification from your Ring doorbell you
can get a notification from Alexa but whatever the notification is, if you have this setting set on,
you can receive a flash notification for that. I will also like to add that this works for
timers and alarms. So if you want to try getting by without a sonic boom alarm clock, this could
be a possible solution. I was so excited when I discovered the potential of the sound notification
because almost everything has notifications. Anytime I install an app it's like would you
like notifications yes or no? So just make sure that you have all the notifications turned off.
You don't care about have those turned on that you do and if your flashes enable when your phone
is locked, you can receive flash notifications. Most often I use vibrating notifications or my
calls and texts and sounds go straight through my Bluetooth hearing aids but in the case that
I don't have my hearing aids in I can now use the flash notification feature. What notifications do
you think you'll use this flash option for? I would love to hear in the comments below. If you haven't
already, please like this video and subscribe to my channel. I look forward to making more hearing
hack awesome videos for you. If you have any good hearing hack video ideas for me, I would love to
hear them in the comments below. I was so grateful for the person who asked me this question that led
to making this video. A while back I was doing research for hearing loss accessibility devices.
There was a ring in jewelry that would flash in the same way when you got like a notification.
It was so cool, but I couldn't find anywhere to buy it. I think it was a conceptual idea. It was
never developed. So if you know anyone that could develop something like this, we should totally do
it because I would love to have like another ring or a bracelet or necklace that would like light up
or vibrate when I get a notification. Granted there are smartwatches, Apple watches out there
that you could wear to get your notifications on your wrist or things like that. I know a
lot of hard of hearing people love their Apple watches. So that is another option I've heard of
to solve the solution of missing notifications and just know you don't miss the notifications
just because you're hard of hearing. We're busy. We're always focused on other things if you're
missing notifications, calls, text, whatever it's okay. I hope that no one watching this video has
any sort of anxiety towards notifications and making sure they get them on time. Obviously the
ring doorbell question that inspired this video is more urgent. If someone's at your door you
definitely want to know before they walk away 30 seconds later this whole concept got me thinking
what if my microwave was smart enough to send me notifications? What if my oven was smart enough?
What if my toaster was smart enough? Wow, that would be awesome to get a notification that like
the oven timer is ringing because I know I can't be the only one has had food burned because I
didn't like here the timer. Has anyone else or I can't be the only one that gets to the toaster and
realizes my bread or bagel has been there for 20 minutes and now that is not where I'm going to put
it in again. And hopefully it doesn't get burned. Anyway, I think I struggle with that more because
I'm such a busy person and I'm always like working on a million different things that
I forget I put something in the microwave or the oven or the toaster, but it probably is
because of my hearing loss. I just don't hear it go pop or ding or things like that.
So what about you? Do you have any comments? I want to hear them in the comments below. Anyway,
I hope you enjoyed this video. Have a great day. Stay strong and stay amazing bye.