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Concept Imagines iPhone 14 Pro's Dynamic Island on iPad
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Bad idea. iPad needs bezels and 100% screens real estate. However I guess the “dynamic island” integration with camera in bezel could be a thing.
I hate where they are now. Always have. I'm not a notch fan, but I'd rather have dynamic island notch in the top of the screen than the camera in the bezel on the left side of the screen. Like, that's literally where I hold it. In a year of owning the iPad, I don't think I've ever unlocked it with FaceID without it first having to remind me to take my thumb off the camera.
This looks pretty slick. But, are they physical cutouts or are they software rendered? If it's the former, I'm less interested. If it's the latter, I'm all about it. I agree we need at least a camera cutout for landscape mode as well. (I can't remember the last time my iPad was in portrait mode.
The cut-out exists because no one has solved that problem yet. Every under-screen camera has worse image quality that the equivalent hole-punch/cut-out camera.
This would be fine if you built it into the bezel in both portrait and landscape mode, but otherwise I watch a lot of content on my iPad and dont a pill obstructing that.
The thing I actually like about this mock-up is the inclusion of the Wallet and Health apps on the iPad. 😂
Honestly same! I know most people don’t like it but I still do. Although I’m pretty sure it’s because my first Apple device was a 2008 white MacBook and I’m all about the nostalgia!!
Yes, and I don’t want to see a stupid pill when watching movies on it. Leave the cameras/FaceID in the bezel, invisible, where it belongs. The Dynamic Island is a solution to an actual problem. Don’t introduce the problem on the iPad.
From a UI perspective Dynamic Island just wouldn't work on macOS, at least how it's set up now. Don't get me wrong, Dynamic Island is incredibly clever, but it strikes me as a solution to challenges unique to iPhone's interface (small screen size, only able to see one app at a time, positioned where notifications are shown anyway). None of which apply to macOS. On the Mac the notch is integrated into the menu bar, and is practically invisible if you use a dark background. Notifications and menu item status icons are off to the right. For Apple to add Dynamic Island functionality you'd suddenly have status icons and notifications popping out smack dab in the middle of the menu bar, away from all of the other menu bar items, possibly breaking up the menus themselves. And what happens when you close the lid and connect a monitor? Does the behavior completely change, or do you get a fake island for consistency? macOS already has robust ways of allowing apps to show their background status, introducing this would just create UI consistency headaches.
I Don’t. The bloody placement on my pro m1 is a joke for Face ID because it keeps asking me to move my hands. Never have a problem on my iPhone but the cameras on the iPad need to be placed landscape as I don’t think anyone uses portrait mode as much as landscape.
Just wondering why this couldn't be implemented on "notch" iPhones as well? I can't see any reason why not -- it's just animating around the black cut-out, right? Why not implement this on ALL iPhones as part of the new iOS??
You wouldn't see it unless you decided to crop off the left and right sides of the movie by scaling to fill the height.
I was also wondering why Dynamic Island couldn't work on iPhones with a notch. Let's call these Dynamic Peninsula.