iOS 26.2 Makes Notifications Impossible To Miss With New Flash Alert Feature: Between notification sounds and vibrations, your iPhone already has plenty of ways to grab your attention. Now, with iOS 26.2, Apple has added one more option to make sure you don’t miss an alert.
As part of several updates and improvements, iOS 26.2 introduces a feature that flashes your screen whenever a notification arrives. To turn it on, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio & Visual, then switch on the ‘Flash for Alerts’ toggle.
Once enabled, you can choose how you want the alerts to work. Your iPhone can flash the screen, flash the LED light on the back, or use both at the same time.
Visual Alerts for When Sound Isn’t Enough
The LED flash option isn’t entirely new, but the screen flash is a fresh addition. With this turned on, your iPhone’s display briefly jumps to full brightness when a notification comes in, making it hard to miss.
Since the setting lives in the accessibility menu, it’s clearly designed to help users who may struggle with sound-based alerts, such as people who are hard of hearing. That said, it can be useful for anyone. If you spend time in loud places where notification sounds get drowned out, or if you don’t wear an Apple Watch to feel alerts on your wrist, this feature could be a big help.
More Reasons to Update to iOS 26.2
The flashing screen option is just one of several changes arriving with iOS 26.2. The update also allows you to add alarms to reminders, use tables in the Freeform app, share content over AirDrop in a new way, and more.
Even if the visual alert feature isn’t something you’ll use every day, iOS 26.2 brings enough useful upgrades to make it worth installing.
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