There are indeed apps that can do this. Fairphone support also told me to install such an app if I wanted a notification LED. I personally don’t see the logic of FP to give this advice. The camera flashlight is very bright and is on the back of the phone. So you won’t see it, unless you have your phone face down, which doesn’t allow you to read notifications from the screen. Also the camera flashlight should keep flashing, if you want persitent notifications. Which is not battery efficient, or nice to your eyes and that of others.
My suggestion would be to ask FP to enable the notification LED which is present on the phone, but FP decided to not use it for some reason. If many people request this, I’m sure they will consider enabling it.
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