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iPhone 14 Pro Always on display is NOT always on during night on nightstand

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I was really looking forward to the always on display on the iPhone 14 Pro. Overall, it's great and I personally feel it's just the right amount of "dim", even at night. I keep my phone on my nightstand at night on a wireless charging stand. I'm a light sleeper and was expecting to be able to look over at night and see the time without having to tap my phone. I found that the phone would turn off the display after around an hour of sitting there with no interaction. One time during the night after noticing this, I grabbed the phone to check emails, etc., and when I pressed the lock button, the screen suprisingly completely turned off. I tapped the screen and it came back on and stayed on. I placed it back on the charger and noticed about an hour later again that it turned off. Around 530AM, it came back on, and stayed on. This seemed to coincide with ambient light levels in the bedroom beginning to increase due to an open window and dawn light. I set the phone up as new, so there is no way it knows my sleeping habits yet.

We know Apple is "intelligently" turning off the display under certain conditions, such as lack of activity, if it's in a bag, face down, etc., and that it learns habits. I'm wondering if I'm experiencing artifacts of this "intelligence" or if perhaps something is off with my ambient light sensor or something.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?
 
bth75 said:
I was really looking forward to the always on display on the iPhone 14 Pro. Overall, it's great and I personally feel it's just the right amount of "dim", even at night. I keep my phone on my nightstand at night on a wireless charging stand. I'm a light sleeper and was expecting to be able to look over at night and see the time without having to tap my phone. I found that the phone would turn off the display after around an hour of sitting there with no interaction. One time during the night after noticing this, I grabbed the phone to check emails, etc., and when I pressed the lock button, the screen suprisingly completely turned off. I tapped the screen and it came back on and stayed on. I placed it back on the charger and noticed about an hour later again that it turned off. Around 530AM, it came back on, and stayed on. This seemed to coincide with ambient light levels in the bedroom beginning to increase due to an open window and dawn light. I set the phone up as new, so there is no way it knows my sleeping habits yet.

We know Apple is "intelligently" turning off the display under certain conditions, such as lack of activity, if it's in a bag, face down, etc., and that it learns habits. I'm wondering if I'm experiencing artifacts of this "intelligence" or if perhaps something is off with my ambient light sensor or something.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?
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Same and I like it.

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At first I was excited to do this, then I read a few things and realized it wouldn’t stay on so I ordered this last night.
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While wireless charging, It comes back on when it senses light. When my room is dark it would turn off after x amount of time. But I woke up this morning to find it back on, obviously with the sun beaming through my windows. Maybe if I had my windows shades down, it would have remained off?
 
I had the same issue it annoyed me using a MagSafe upright charging stand it stayed on when I went sleep and was dark and an hour later I woke up and it was off, is there a way to keep it on
 
bth75 said:
I was really looking forward to the always on display on the iPhone 14 Pro. Overall, it's great and I personally feel it's just the right amount of "dim", even at night. I keep my phone on my nightstand at night on a wireless charging stand. I'm a light sleeper and was expecting to be able to look over at night and see the time without having to tap my phone. I found that the phone would turn off the display after around an hour of sitting there with no interaction. One time during the night after noticing this, I grabbed the phone to check emails, etc., and when I pressed the lock button, the screen suprisingly completely turned off. I tapped the screen and it came back on and stayed on. I placed it back on the charger and noticed about an hour later again that it turned off. Around 530AM, it came back on, and stayed on. This seemed to coincide with ambient light levels in the bedroom beginning to increase due to an open window and dawn light. I set the phone up as new, so there is no way it knows my sleeping habits yet.

We know Apple is "intelligently" turning off the display under certain conditions, such as lack of activity, if it's in a bag, face down, etc., and that it learns habits. I'm wondering if I'm experiencing artifacts of this "intelligence" or if perhaps something is off with my ambient light sensor or something.

Anyone else experiencing something similar?
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Yes I’m experiencing something similar. I have it plugged into a standard lightning charger and the screen completely turns off after a while . We have a nightlight so it’s dim but not completely dark .

Was really looking forward to using the aod as a bedtime clock without having to tap anything.
 
I like to sleep in a dark room… complete blackout.

An always on iPhone screen next to the bed would be terrible.

So I am rather glad the thing turns off.

Mind you, I don't even have the phone in the bedroom, so I guess the point is moot for me. 😄
 
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If it's just about the clock and being able to see the time, the old standbys of clock apps at night still work.

I've been running this app at night on all my iPhones since I found it around 2012. Plenty of others out there like it.

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I like to sleep in a dark room… complete blackout.

An always on iPhone screen next to the bed would be terrible.

So I am rather glad the thing turns off.

Mind you, I don't even have the phone in the bedroom, so I guess the point is moot for me. 😄
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I am the same. My wife is bothered by noise (I could sleep through a nuclear bomb going off), I am bothered by light. But a low light clock has never bothered me. A screen at full brightness on all the time yes, but not a low light clock.

This is one of the reasons I chose the app I mention above. It's reminiscent of all those LED alarm clocks of the 80s and 90s, which were in my room as a kid into my mid-20s.
 
Happened to me too. I noticed at 2:30 am but when I tapped the screen it didn’t go on. I had to press the power button to get it to turn on. After that it stayed on until I got up at 5 am. I don’t have any of the focus stuff enabled so I’m wondering how to get it to stay on all night.
 
Mine turns off if there is no activity after an hour. It's technically not an "always on" display IMO. Would have been nice to have the option to adjust that.

Oh, and I don't have sleep focus on
 
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I read somewhere on apple support about the iphone guide that the iphone will turn off completely in the pocket and when it’s faced down, i had sleep mode on and my girlfriend just had it on but i realized her iphone screen did turn off after a while on it’s on, thought it was interesting!
 
I can see it doing it during sleep mode but it does it not in sleep mode as well. I guess apple was maybe thinking people these days get a lot of notifications so it will always be activated within the hour shut down.
 
I’m not happy with AOD turning off automatically. The reason why upgraded in the first place was AOD.
Android phones is stays on all the time.
 
After a week of tapping the screen during the night when I want AOD to be active, it now is on every time I wake during the night to look at it. It does indeed learn from your activity.

(PS: I made my own “sleep mode” instead of using the stock sleep mode. And now, after a week of it learning my habits, it stays on most of the night.)
 
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