In my childhood, I have observed that some people use their mobile phone as flashlight. I have seen that the user of what most likely was a Nokia E72 just held down the space bar and had instant flash light. In 2012, I took a look at the Galaxy S3 and S2 quick control center (or what ever it is called), where the WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS/etc. shortcuts are, and I expected the torch shortcut to be there to, so it is instantly accessible. To my disappointment, it wasn't. Samsung initially brought this feature in 2015 (Galaxy S6), and it only became a standard Android feature in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Prior to that, Samsung had a far less practical (but better than nothing) home screen widget for flashlight access, and there were some third party apps with floating UI's that could access the flashlight through Android's legacy *Camera version 1* API. This is one thing where [Apple](/s/crApple) was admittedly somewhat ahead. iOS 7's new control center (2013) brought a flashlight shortcut. But thankfully, since 2016, the quick flashlight access is a default feature on pretty much every Android phone.