Wait, so you want like the algorithm that determines that condition? 🤣. Yes, yes, silly Apple how could they leave that out.
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Apple Reveals 8 Scenarios Where iPhone 14 Pro's Always-On Display Turns Off
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My guess is there is no fixed number and that it's dynamic based on a number of variables (time of day, location, number and priority of recent notifications, etc.)
As MKBHD mentioned the hardware is actually like that on the picture but Apple intentionally added black pixels to fill out the empty space between those. (Which makes tapping the Dynamic Island more accurate and shows it as a one pill shape)
False advertising. Call the lawyers! let’s get a class action suit filed. 🤣
I doubt that. It's probably more of their divisions not communicating well with each other because of all the secrecy. That's probably what the phone looked like to them when they were developing that part of the software.
The only thing that doesn't make any sense is wasting battery to display a useless wallpaper when aod is active.
Great to know the various situations. Happy that Always on display is finally available.
Very cool and well thought out. Though I can see why some might want it to stay on in the sleep focus to replicate having an alarm clock on their night stand.
I’d be curious to understand scenarios where the always on screen is useful to people. I plan to turn it off to save screen/battery. I have a little Google nest screen thingy (don’t even know what it’s called). I have it next to my work computer and I find it mostly pointless. All the info I need at a glance is already on my computer screen. Weather, notifications, time etc. My Phone is either in my pocket or my hand. How else are people using phones that having an always on display is useful?
Maybe not. Maybe the programmed timeframe varies as a result of other factors. Pretty sure the coding doesn’t HAVE to be +15 minutes for example. Any number would seem pretty arbitrary and basic to me.
How long until our iPhones know when we are pooping, and start recommending whatever we normally use our phones for when we poop? And start telling us of for not washing our hands afterwards.
yeah top secret with "need to know basis", Tim Apple just secretly coded it himself and pulled it out of hat 5 minutes before recording presentation, its not like it needs dozens of developers and even more testers
I think 'A while' will differ for different users. Just like the charging/paused pattern is based on user behaviour pattern.
Disappointed that Sleep Focus turns it off rather than have the option for a very dimmed display for a bedside clock
I’m on this band, would be really curious to know.
I find that the devices wake up so fast already… take your phone out of the pocket and by the time it reaches your front FaceID is already half way trying unlock it. Same with the Apple Watch (I got the first SE), it even wakes up when on a charging stand and I walk into the room somehow, maybe some motion-vibrations/mic/etc detection
But looks very potentially a case of “I don’t know what I’m missing because I have never tried it” situation.
To be fair, all the functionality beyond just the animations is some work: it needs to host and maintain data pulling from the displayed application, replace accordingly (swiping a new one into it or priorities based, i.e a call overrides whatever was there). All the API for all of that and third parties support. All the documentation for all of that… if it was really top secret that’s something because it isn’t an isolated feature.
I'm really hoping this technique can get applied to other apps as appropriate. I read a lot of Kindle ebooks on my phone and apart from a page turn about once every 45 seconds I am otherwise looking at a totally static display so, apart from wanting the screen at normal working brightness rather than dimmed, that could basically be treated the same as the AOD. Things are still reasonably static for a lot of seconds in any given 15 or 30 second slice of time when I'm reading messages (SMS or WhatsApp), reading a news story, reading an article on Wikipedia etc.
For people who watch video and/or play games things are a lot different but it would be interesting to see the results of instrumenting the phones of a large and representative selection of iPhone users to see just how much screen refreshing goes on per minute of on-screen time. I wonder whether Apple has ever done that.
It can be fed by an AI model that “learns” from your usage behavior. They are not going to dump a full (to the point of reproducibility) description of that logic into a support document.