- iOS 26.2 includes a new feature that alerts you to notifications
- With this enabled, your phone’s screen will flash at full brightness when a notification arrives
- This is one of many new features introduced in iOS 26.2
Between sounds and vibrations, your iPhone’s notifications may already seem noticeable enough most of the time, but iOS 26.2 introduces yet another way to alert you to a new message or pop-up.
Among many other updates and improvements, iOS 26.2 has added the ability to flash the screen when a notification arrives. To enable this, go to Settings > Accessibility > Sound & Visual, then enable “Flash for alerts” (see image below, shared by 9to5Mac).
With the function activated, you can choose whether the screen should flash for warnings, the LED camera should flash on the back, or both elements should flash.
Visual alerts for when sounds don’t cut it
The ability to make the LED flash shine is actually not new; it’s just the screen setting that is. Now, with this feature enabled, your iPhone’s screen will be boosted to full brightness momentarily when a notification arrives.
This being in the accessibility section tells you that it is primarily aimed at people who may have problems with other kinds of notifications – for example, those who are hearing impaired. But it can also be beneficial for other people, especially if you’re often in noisy environments where you’re unlikely to hear a notification and you’re not wearing an Apple Watch that will vibrate on your wrist instead.
This new feature is joined by many others, and iOS 26.2 also lets you add alarms to reminders, use tables in the Freeform app, share over AirDrop in a new way, and more. So whether you care about this screen flash feature or not, iOS 26.2 is worth downloading.
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