Check Out the iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island in Action

[aloshka]

Is anyone else having an issue with faceid breaking when using a screen protector on the phone? Typically the camera part is cut out on screen protectors, but with dynamic island, it's weird to cut it out, so those protectors that cover the screen, it doesnt work well.

If your screen protector works, can you let me what you are using. I tried TechArmor and the camera is just blurry with it on.

 

[IIGS User]

Is marijuana legal on Dynamic Island.

Asking for a friend.

Or as I’m calling it now, “The DI”…

 

[johnnylarue]

Dynamic Island? More like a second rate Barbamama impersonator. (Time to lawyer up, Barbamama!)

 

[rawriphone]

Do text message notifications not come from dynamic island? I received a text and all it did was drop down a banner notification.

 

[jeffmacrumors]

Honestly, wouldn't it be more aptly named: The Dynamic Black Hole?

I choose the black pill… Neo.

 

[dwhittington]

I like the idea of "flicking" the widget downward as a shortcut to dive into the widget.

 

[Populus]

I know this question doesn’t make sense for most people, however: Is it there a way to disable the Magic Island animations per-app? Let’s say, I don’t want a voice memos app to show the waveform, or the Music to show the Album I am listening to. Is it there a way to granularly disable this?

Also, I’ve seen that you cannot have more than 2 apps making use of the Magic Island. Do you think this will be a problem in the long run? I‘ve tried to start a screen-recording, an audio recording, and the timer, and then a screen-recordig just ended the recording. Do you think there is a limit?

 

[FelixDerKater]

It seems people are saying it looks funky outside in the sun.

 

[Baritone_Guy]

Honestly, wouldn't it be more aptly named: The Dynamic Black Hole?

Agreed. This looks like it could get annoying and distracting. It also seems most of the time it takes up more space than the notch did.

We shall see. My verdict is still out.

 

[exoticSpice]

Dislike it myself, less real estate than my phones current notch. It is a gimmick, Apple and Nintendo love a good gimmick because their diehards do too.

And Android phone companies don't do gimmicks. Oh yeah they do.

 

[thinkadam]

One thing I hate about it already. During a call it covers the time/clock!
I constantly look at the time. The giant elapsed time on the DI covers the clock.
This should be an option

 

[spinedoc77]

All I see are still 2 black blobs blocking my view! But kudos to Apple for getting fans excited, even though functionally it doesn't look very useful to my own use case, as a shareholder I appreciate the excitement it seems to be generating.

 

[GMShadow]

This is what was said about the touchbar.

The DI doesn't replace an existing functionality to the annoyance of users.

 

[redbeard331]

I don't care what anyone says, I'm digging' DI...great little feature.

Oh, and always-on display is awesome and I didn't think I'd have much interest in it. So much better not having to touch or pick up my device to check notifications etc.

So my question is... When you have the "AOD" enabled and your phone is sitting next to you, what happens when a notification comes in? Can you see it? Or do you need to unlock the phone and swipe up? So far none of the reviews have touched on this.

 

[redbeard331]

This is what was said about the touchbar.

I still don't understand the hate towards the touchar, I always thought it was one of the coolest ideas apple has ever come up with and found it to be so useful, so bummed they dropped it.

Why did people hate it? I've never seen an actual explanation, other than people just saying it sucked.

 

[chickeneaster]

To any developers out there, I can happily beta test any apps for you

 

[Chrjy]

So my question is... When you have the "AOD" enabled and your phone is sitting next to you, what happens when a notification comes in? Can you see it? Or do you need to unlock the phone and swipe up? So far none of the reviews have touched on this.

Good question. That all depends what you have set up as part of your notification privacy settings. So in my case, I have set it up so that I can see a notification appear on the screen so I know who it’s from but it doesn’t show the message preview until I unlock. However, if you want to be able to see the preview of the notification then you need to adjust in settings.

 

[redbeard331]

I think it's great to have an active activity status at the top of the screen. That's what that area is for... notifications and statuses. Having quick access to a widget and app switching is awesome. The fluid integration with the OS is stellar. Once there is more app support beyond the standard APIs it's going to get even better.

Even if/when we get rid of a notch or cutout I wouldn't want this type of status to disappear. For now, it's an amazing way to blend a necessary cutout into a wonderful feature.

I totally agree it's the best solution for now, and can be even better once they can hide the camera and face id elements behind the screen. Once that happens it can be sort of a dynamic notification area like it is now, but with more space in the middle to display stuff since it will actually be screen there. I've always wanted better notifications icons, dynamic animated interactive notifications are the best of all.

It will be interesting to see when more apps take advantage of it to show stuff like food delivery times, severe weather alerts, missed calls/texts etc.

What about iMessage? Does it show a iMessage icon in the dynamic island?

 

[klasma]

Why do you think there is less real estate then current notch? Sure the DI expands sometimes but otherwise the intrusion is minimal. The DI does site a little further down from the edge of the screen but the new screens are a little taller to compensate. in the end the safe area underneath is about the same.

The screen is 8 pixels taller, but the DI goes 20 pixels lower, so effectively 12 pixels lower than the notch. It’s not a lot, but it’s something.

 

[klasma]

I still don't understand the hate towards the touchar, I always thought it was one of the coolest ideas apple has ever come up with and found it to be so useful, so bummed they dropped it.

Why did people hate it? I've never seen an actual explanation, other than people just saying it sucked.

Many people didn’t like it because unlike physical keys that you can operate blindly, you generally have to look at the touch bar to operate it. And some some people use the Escape key and the function keys extensively (Vim, Excel, what-have-you). Adding it as an additional row instead of replacing the existing standard top row would probably have been less controversial.

 

[Chrjy]

I still don't understand the hate towards the touchar, I always thought it was one of the coolest ideas apple has ever come up with and found it to be so useful, so bummed they dropped it.

Why did people hate it? I've never seen an actual explanation, other than people just saying it sucked.

I think there were a number of people who liked it. However, I think a lot of people thought it was frustrating, myself included. I understand why it was developed and I can fully appreciate why it felt like a good option during development but the way a user had to interact with it made it feel cumbersome…at least that’s how I felt about it.
I believe there were 2 main reasons it got so much flack:
1: Whatever people say, there’s something about tactile feedback and a normal button that can’t be replicated with the touchbar. It’s also much faster. For example, just turning up the volume or adjusting brightness on a touchbar felt much more frustrating.
2: depending on your seating position would determine how easy it was to see the touchbar and its controls. For example, when I’m on the sofa, I have a stand that my Mac is placed on and I sit slightly lower so I couldn’t see the controls of the touchbar very well and had to crane my neck to see what controls were where to make adjustments, that isn’t the case for standard keys.

Anyway, just my 2 cents. And i believe each to their own. If you like it, great. I kind of wish I had but never got on with it but do understand why Apple thought it would have been a good idea.

 

[Klyster]

It's quite a cool widget really.
What's it like in landscape mode?

 

[Tagbert]

The screen is 8 pixels taller, but the DI goes 20 pixels lower, so effectively 12 pixels lower than the notch. It’s not a lot, but it’s something.

The screens are 18 and 24 pixels taller, not 8.

14 Pro Max 2796‑by‑1290 (18px taller)
13 Pro Max 2778‑by‑1284

14 Pro 2556‑by‑1179 (24px taller)
13 Pro 2532‑by‑1170

Oddly, it seems like there was a little more increase in the pro than in the pro max screen.

 

[jonnysods]

So what happens if you have three DI eligible functions active at once? Do you only see the two most recent, or can it display more? (What if you’re listening to music, tracking sports, have a timer, and are waiting on a lyft?)

Oh then you will use Peek and Pop, or long press. Or they will have a new feature called Crowded Dynamic Island!

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Dynamic Island is the future of mobile computing.

You joke, but I do wonder if the future Apple glasses, not the headset, but the actual glasses, will have some sort of HUD that works extremely similar to the dynamic island.
Would not surprise me if the dynamic island is a very, very, very early version of that type of interface.