TL;DR
- Google introduced its HiLight notification light with Pixel 11 Pro models this year.
- So far, HiLight has officially supported Phone and WhatsApp calls, as well as Gemini interactions.
- That’s now expanding to also include Google Messages.
Google brought Pixel phones a new hardware feature this year, marking the debut of the HiLight notification light on Pixel 11 models, and now, with the release of the November Pixel Drop, it’s picking up some new functionality.
Notification lights have been around since phones weren’t even that smart, but in recent years we’ve seen less and less of them — which is a shame, because they can be genuinely useful. But while we were excited to see Google embrace them again for Pixel 11 phones (well, the Pro models, anyway), so far HiLight has been a little limited in terms of what it can officially do.
