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always on display turning itself off after 16.2

I have the same issue. I’m really annoyed how they can claim it’s an always-on display when it’s obviously isn’t! I still have to use an alarm clock-app running at night if I wake up in the night and want to see the time, because the always-on display isn’t always on, even if the phone is charging. :(
 
Hornby said:
So far, since this morning, AOD is working fine. Hmmm. Good, but I’ll keep monitoring.
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I toggled Low Power mode. Worked great entire day and night. Moment I charged my phone, started misbehaving again
 
ps4db said:
I toggled Low Power mode. Worked great entire day and night. Moment I charged my phone, started misbehaving again
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And yesterday, mine was fine all day but by evening it started the problem again. I still had over 50% battery, too. No sleep settings or Low Power Mode enabled.
 
Sorry its not working for you guys. The last thing I did to it fixed it. So now it work normally during the day. It does turn off in the middle of the night as stated by apple support page. Then when get up it stays on all day, or off in my pocket.
 
Well I have a different problem. I found that when I have AOD on and I receive a call and press the slide to answer and answer the call, when I put it in my ear to talk, screen goes off (correct) but when I move it away from my ear (to see the screen), the screen has a delay to show and stays black for 2 seconds. For that 2 seconds I can't also end call with the side button. I have to wait the screen to lighten. If I unlock the phone during call by swiping up, the delay goes away! Of course everything works ok when I call someone (because the phone it's already unlocked). Proximity sensor works great then.
So what I mean is that proximity sensor is slow to lighten screen when AOD is on in an incoming call. If AOD is off proximity sensor works as it should in incoming calls. So I think it's a software issue and not hardware probably. Any thoughts?
 
So everyone has tried "Reset All Settings" after making sure you all have an iCloud or computer backup? Just in case.
 
Reset all settings didn't help. I also did a erase iPhone and backed up from my latest iCloud backup.
 
I have had zero issues with Always on Display on 16.2. Always on Display is depended on Power saving. Turn Power saving OFF. Make sure you have specific settings that affect AOD off.
 
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This just started happening to me last night. First time experiencing it on my iPhone 14 Pro (16.2) and it seems to be happening randomly. Very annoying.
 
mastermixer99 said:
So I've noticed since 16.2 the screen goes black in a dark room almost immediately, where on 16.1 it would stay on AOD for at least an hour before going black.
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Come to think of it...whenever my AOD randomly shuts off after 1-3 minutes, it's been in a dark room.
 
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Damn this is really starting to annoy me.

Anyone know if this is happening in the 16.3 beta?
 
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mastermixer99 said:
So I've noticed since 16.2 the screen goes black in a dark room almost immediately, where on 16.1 it would stay on AOD for at least an hour before going black.
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Yep, same here- only seems to happen in dark rooms.

Something had to change because before the update screen would only turn off during sleep focus mode or face down/in pocket, now turns off in any dark room.
 
I put my phone in the drawer. It's about 1pm here. Left it in a drawer pitch dark for 10 min. Pitch dark. I opened it and the screen is still on AOD and didn't go black for me. So dark room is not triggering it.

I put it in my pocket and the screen turns off. I think it knows that its vertical and dark so it knows its in the pocket.
 
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Alright…I’m working on a theory here (and it’s just a theory based on my personal experiences and very little testing), but…

…for me, it never happens during the day. Not sure why that is.

And, in the last two hours, I’ve been sitting in a semi-dark room and the AOD has turned itself off multiple times…but I just noticed that, as of my limited recent testing, it only turns off when I have the full screen media wallpaper active (aka the thing where you tap an album cover on the Lock Screen media player and it makes the album art the wallpaper).

When the media wallpaper is active, the AOD turns off after a minute or two of the phone being locked (in my semi-dark room). When the full screen media wallpaper isn’t active, the AOD doesn’t seem to turn off (in my semi-dark room).

Can anyone confirm or deny this theory?
 
Wow I just typed all that and then my phone’s AOD immediately turned off and disproved my entire theory.

Man I’m so sick of Apple’s software being ridiculously buggy these days. Ugh.
 
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s2mike said:
Wow I just typed all that and then my phone’s AOD immediately turned off and disproved my entire theory.

Man I’m so sick of Apple’s software being ridiculously buggy these days. Ugh.
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Yeps, I’ve just stopped noticing any more. Yes, it tends to happen more ar night and less during the day. But otherwise completely random.
 
s2mike said:
Wow I just typed all that and then my phone’s AOD immediately turned off and disproved my entire theory.

Man I’m so sick of Apple’s software being ridiculously buggy these days. Ugh.
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I am finding it’s happening only in quite dark settings (in the evening). Gee, maybe they will call it a “feature” :)
 
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I can confirm that it happens to me too on my iPhone 14 Pro.

I was listening to a podcast in bed last night (in complete darkness) and the screen kept going off! Sometimes it would stay on a couple of minutes, sometimes around 30 seconds and once only lasted 9 seconds (yes I counted!). Very annoying!
 
For the 14PM, for mine at least, 16.2 is a mess compared to 16.1.2. I really do regret updating. AOD issues and laggy annimations in general.
 
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