Tell me you don't understand the purpose of it at all, without telling me you don't understand the purpose of it at all.
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iPhone 15 Pro Anyone else hate the "dynamic island?"
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The purpose is to constantly cover up content that I'm trying to see? Provide a place for me to accidentally tap when needing to interact with something near the top of my screen?
I find it annoying too, and would love to turn it off. It's the worst part of my 15 Pro.
Uh, no. The purpose of the Dynamic Island is to obfuscate ugly hardware that is ALREADY covering part of your screen, and to turn it into something useful.
Yep, and it accomplishes that in a manner that makes it even more annoying than just having the black pill to begin with. I'd rather have the notch.
Glad you seem to like it - I'm sure others do too. But some of us are certainly capable of understanding its purpose while still wishing it could be turned off.
Does it really matter that much? It takes up less area overall than the notch and it's still at the top of the screen. What difference does it really make?
The problem I have is when it expands beyond the original size of the pill. Some of those notifications cannot be silenced, and it's annoying when it covers content that I'm actively viewing.
I jumped from iPhone 12 straight to 16 Pro Max.
I like the Dynamic Island a whole lot more than the notch. It’s a clever use of restrictive feature.
I like the Dynamic Island a whole lot more than the notch. It’s a clever use of restrictive feature.
Agree, the display space between the top and the notch, completely unusable. Every other company just have a hole punch.
Agreed. Even as a diehard Apple consumer, I much prefer the look of the Samsung Galaxy over the iPhone. I’d never switch sides though due to my love of iOS.
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Brand bias will have fans love/defend whatever Apple serves until Apple drops it. We just had a couple of YEARS of passionate defense of keeping a Lightning port in iPhone and bash-a-rama against the EU for "forcing" the change WHILE Apple clung to Lightning. However, once Apple adopted USB-C, the vast majority of that evaporated overnight... and the major rationale like pocket lint (magnet), broken (USB) tongues, and "wobbly" (port) all seemed to have been much ado about nothing.
Island will get love and/or defense until Apple drops it too... just as notch before it. Remember defenses like "the notch is iconic" and similar?
Myself? I have never liked either at all... and prefer how iPad mini (which doubles as phone with VOIP app & buds for my purposes) hides the front-facing camera in a relatively thin bezel. I see no attractiveness in any kind of permanent cutout within the screen rectangle... including the pinhole option used in some phones.
When consumers have a screen that is not a phone, should we find even one dead pixel (often showing as black), we'll likely return/exchange that screen. However, because this is spun as a feature, we accept a relatively large zone of permanently black space on a screen. Messages and notifications within it (to make it a feature) could show just as easily as overlay notifications on a hypothetical iPhone with no front-facing cameras. Apple needs somewhere to put the cameras, etc so we had notch and now we have island.
But if I was a phone buyer, I might just prefer Touch ID in the power button and NO front-facing camera for an unimpeded screen... or a physical shape at the top that has the upper edge of the phone rise up enough for house the cameras... like a notch positioned upside down with the case of the phone shaped around it. Yes, that would make for a taller phone, but a little more physical height would still fit in the same pockets. We already readily accept a protruding camera pack on the back. Would we as readily accept a physical bezel like an upside-down notch in exchange for an uninterrupted screen? I would.
Run this poll again when Apple drops Island for whatever is next and the passionate support of what they sell now will flip right to whatever replaces it... as it always does.
Island will get love and/or defense until Apple drops it too... just as notch before it. Remember defenses like "the notch is iconic" and similar?
Myself? I have never liked either at all... and prefer how iPad mini (which doubles as phone with VOIP app & buds for my purposes) hides the front-facing camera in a relatively thin bezel. I see no attractiveness in any kind of permanent cutout within the screen rectangle... including the pinhole option used in some phones.
When consumers have a screen that is not a phone, should we find even one dead pixel (often showing as black), we'll likely return/exchange that screen. However, because this is spun as a feature, we accept a relatively large zone of permanently black space on a screen. Messages and notifications within it (to make it a feature) could show just as easily as overlay notifications on a hypothetical iPhone with no front-facing cameras. Apple needs somewhere to put the cameras, etc so we had notch and now we have island.
But if I was a phone buyer, I might just prefer Touch ID in the power button and NO front-facing camera for an unimpeded screen... or a physical shape at the top that has the upper edge of the phone rise up enough for house the cameras... like a notch positioned upside down with the case of the phone shaped around it. Yes, that would make for a taller phone, but a little more physical height would still fit in the same pockets. We already readily accept a protruding camera pack on the back. Would we as readily accept a physical bezel like an upside-down notch in exchange for an uninterrupted screen? I would.
Run this poll again when Apple drops Island for whatever is next and the passionate support of what they sell now will flip right to whatever replaces it... as it always does.
That’s like saying the pinnacle of car tech peaked with the pinto and it’s been downhill ever since.
After it gets dropped there is no point in continuing unlike critics who never stop.
that doesn’t mean I like usb-c. Lightning was a better connector.
Not nothing. USB-c is not a good as connector.
Yea Dynamic Island is a love it hate it. Critics hate it and fans love it.
It’s true. The notch is iconic.
Yep, let’s check in a year or so.
Nah, cars seemed to peak in the 2008-2015 ish range. A new car today, granted the safety feature are wonderful, but the mechanical build quality has gone down noticeably.
Ok grandpa, now let's go down to the cafeteria and get you some applesauce so the orderly can change the sheets on your bed.
I've got use to the DI now - saying that, I don't think Apple or app developers have made the best use of it so far.
I wonder if we'll see changes to the DI as iPhones continue to slowly change and develop over the coming years!
I wonder if we'll see changes to the DI as iPhones continue to slowly change and develop over the coming years!
I've yet to find I use dynamic island, certainly non of the apps I use seem to make use of it. What apps are others using that make use of it?
