Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Hints of iPhone 14 Pro Always-On Display May Be in Xcode 14 Beta

contacos said:
Have it on two of my Samsung Galaxy phones. Never really cared for it tbh. The only time I really look at my sleeping phone screen is to check the charging battery status and even that, Apple took away on the iOS 16 betas lol especially „useless“ when u have an Apple Watch but I guess it’s nice to have the option to use it
Click to expand...
Isn't there a lock screen widget for that?

battery-widgets-lock-screen.jpg
 
  • Like
Reactions: compwiz1202
JM said:
Charging, it doesn’t matter. Unless you want bazillion watts for charging in 3 seconds to full.

The actual useful thing is data transfer. USB-C would allow data transfer at MUCH higher speeds than lightning.

The example someone gave was “imagine trying to transfer a 8k (rumored) video file that is several minutes long to your computer over the slow data transfer speeds of lightning”.

Picture for transfer speed differences.
Click to expand...
I guess that doesn’t matter to me for the iPhone. I don’t transfer anything over the connector. I don’t even use the port. I have a MacBook pro and connect a USB-C SSD for backups but I don’t care how fast it is.

Nevetheless, I think the argument ends up being moot. The EU will force it sooner or later anyway, and everyone chomping at the bit for USB-C will get it. They‘ll break it all like they broke just about every website with their dumbass cookie regulations. LOl, OK, that’s just a side rant.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: JM
I don't need always on display, I have an AppleWatch. But could be nice to be able to use the phone like a clock, showing the time when it's charging only, so at night, beside the bed I'd have my phone as a alarm clock...
 
  • Like
  • Disagree
Reactions: bejib66000 and TonyC28
I sure hope that it is optional. I don't need nor want my phone to always bee on.
 
Dawizkid said:
I sure hope that it is optional. I don't need nor want my phone to always bee on.
Click to expand...
It’s an option on the Apple Watch (where I prefer it), so I imagine it will be an option on the iPhone (which I won’t upgarde before 15 most likely)
 
The sad part is, why Apple is drip dropping technology like this? What technical reason this could not be software/firmware function offered to the iPhone 13? In fact, why 120 Hz and Always On has taken this long to arrive? Another drip is coming next year called USB C and Tim is gonna shed a tear on stage I bet.
 
  • Like
Reactions: NoGood@Usernames
Mr. Dee said:
The sad part is, why Apple is drip dropping technology like this? What technical reason this could not be software/firmware function offered to the iPhone 13? In fact, why 120 Hz and Always On has taken this long to arrive? Another drip is coming next year called USB C and Tim is gonna shed a tear on stage I bet.
Click to expand...
Apple wants 1hz screens for minimal battery drain
 
  • Like
Reactions: AdamInKent, EmotionalSnow and wbeasley
I’d like my phone screen to stay on while my phone is sitting on my upright Anker wireless charger on my desk. Hopefully there will be a way to only have the feature active while the device is on a charger.

Otherwise, I don’t know when this would be useful to me. It definitely doesn’t need to be on in my pocket.
 
classicalbear said:
I don't need always on display, I have an AppleWatch. But could be nice to be able to use the phone like a clock, showing the time when it's charging only, so at night, beside the bed I'd have my phone as a alarm clock...
Click to expand...
Now this is one thing I would like it for.
 
classicalbear said:
I don't need always on display, I have an AppleWatch. But could be nice to be able to use the phone like a clock, showing the time when it's charging only, so at night, beside the bed I'd have my phone as a alarm clock...
Click to expand...
I have a Pixel 5 as an extra phone and I like seeing the AOD for notifications and the time, it's very convenient
 
JM said:
Charging, it doesn’t matter. Unless you want bazillion watts for charging in 3 seconds to full.

The actual useful thing is data transfer. USB-C would allow data transfer at MUCH higher speeds than lightning.

The example someone gave was “imagine trying to transfer a 8k (rumored) video file that is several minutes long to your computer over the slow data transfer speeds of lightning”.

Picture for transfer speed differences.
Click to expand...
Yea but it's still USB. It will still crash and torch your USB HCI when, not if, a device malfunctions or has some idiotic issue (like an external disk that can't get its local buffer flushed to disk in a reasonable time). Then your USB bus is hung waiting ...and waiting... oh look "I/O error". Sigh. Now you got a disk you can't eject from the bus and a bus that can't get reset, so your options are to hard power off your machine or ...well... that's it. That's your only option.

Yay USB. Designed by committee, fails daily.

Yes, please, more of that. Hail to the gods of World's Crappiest Bus. Die, Intel. Die.
 
  • Wow
Reactions: JM
Mr. Dee said:
The sad part is, why Apple is drip dropping technology like this? What technical reason this could not be software/firmware function offered to the iPhone 13? In fact, why 120 Hz and Always On has taken this long to arrive? Another drip is coming next year called USB C and Tim is gonna shed a tear on stage I bet.
Click to expand...
Because phones have reached "peak feature", and OS has, too. There's almost nothing an iPhone 13 does that I'm missing "oh so bad" versus my iPhone SE (2016). Sure it "does stuff", I know. Lots of "features", but the daily net effect... eh. "Better" photos and videos, for sure. But if I needed it, my 2016 SE records in 4K. Never once have I done that.

I wouldn't notice an iPhone 13 if I had it, either. It's a communication tool. FaceCrap works the same, mail and safari is the same, my bank apps are the same, my mobile food apps and amazon is the same... what's the real difference? Barely any.

"Faster" is not a feature. It's a side effect.

So yeah, drip drop features is all we got. Not an Apple problem, tho; it's just how tech goes.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Mr. Dee, NoGood@Usernames and jmgregory1
darngooddesign said:
If you can't stop confusing two cable types that look nothing alike, should you really be operating a computer?

The main benefit of USB-C is for data transfer, not charging. But then you have to make sure you brought a TB cable instead of regular USB-C, and to get the fastest data transfer you need a short cable which sucks for charging from a wall. So now you have to bring two cables, one for charging and the other for data transfer. LOL

iPhones will get USB-C but this isn't the big issue people want to turn it into.
Click to expand...
Not being able to plug your new iPhone into your new Mac without an adapter is insanity, no matter how you try and spin this.

Also, everything you just said about charging and data transfer is utter nonsense.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back