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Use the Camera Flash for Notification Alerts on iPhone 6

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You are watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to use the flash of your iPhone 6 to alert you for new notifications.

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To begin, press the Home button one time
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This button is located at the bottom center of the phone.

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Then, we will swipe across the screen to the right
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This will open up our pin or passcode area. We can also press and hold our finger on the Home button to use the fingerprint scanner.

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This will take us to the Home screen
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On the Home screen, we are looking for the silver and grey icon, labeled with the word "Settings". It is easily identifiable, as it has a series of gears within it.
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Once the "Settings" icon is located, give it a single press
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This will open the "Settings" panel.

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In the "Settings" panel, we are looking for the "General" option
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Scroll down to the top of the third menu. We will see a grey box, with gears inside of it. The word "General" will be written beside of the icon. This is the "General" option.
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Tap on the 'General' option once
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We will now be taken to the 'General' panel.

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From the "General" panel, we are looking for "Accessibility"
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"Accessibility" is the sixth option in the "General" panel.
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Once "Accessibility" is located, press down on it once
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We will now be in the "Accessibility" panel
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Locate the option labeled "LED Flash for Alerts"
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To find this option, scroll down a bit from the top. It will be under the "HEARING" section of "Accessibility".
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Turn this option 'On' by pressing the sliding icon, located to the right of the words "LED Flash for Alerts"
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Once we have turned this option 'On', any new or incoming alerts will also trigger the flash on your phone.
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Now we can press the word "General" located in the upper, left-hand corner to return to the "General" options area
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We will then press the word "Settings" located in the upper, left-hand corner to return to the "Settings" menu
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For demonstration, we have set an alarm to go 'Off'
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Since we have no new notifications, this will trigger a notification alert and the flash will light up.
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Return to the Home screen, and lock the device
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If the phone is not locked, this function will not work so this step is necessary.
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We can see now that the Alarm has gone off, triggering the flash
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Snoozing this alarm by pressing the Lock button will stop the flash
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As we can see, the Flash is no longer alerting is of a new notification.
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This concludes our tutorial on setting up the LED flash on your iPhone 6 to alert you of incoming notifications
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