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They were a good indicator for notifications that are missed when you were away from phone.

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[–] why_rob_y@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

passive display

This is the real answer for OP. Those lights were replaced. Maybe OP (and maybe me as well, I haven't really thought about it) would prefer to still have the notification LED, but to the hardware manufacturers they replaced those with something "cooler".