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iOS 17.4 Beta Adds Stopwatch Live Activity
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Both are basically interchangeable in that situation. “In the Dynamic Island” is the same as “on the Dynamic Island” and “on the Home Screen” is the same as “in the Home Screen.” It’s a matter of choice.
Would like to have this on AppleWatch too. Or can i add it already as a complication?
iOS 17.4 introduces a small but useful change for the Clock app's Stopwatch function, adding the timer to Apple's Live Activities feature. When activated through the Clock app, the Stopwatch will now show up both in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen.
The Dynamic Island shows a small to-the-second timer, and the Lock Screen shows the full Stopwatch timer when the screen is being looked at. Pressing into the Dynamic Island shows options for pausing the Stopwatch or starting a new lap, with these controls also on the Lock Screen. After the Stopwatch is paused, swiping on it from the Lock Screen or tapping on the "X" in Dynamic Island will clear it.
Timers have worked with Live Activities since the feature launched with iOS 16, but the Stopwatch could only be viewed in the Clock app. The addition of Live Activities support will prevent users from activating the timer and then forgetting about it.
(Thanks, Hidde!)
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I think I'm just used to saying "on the lock screen" which is why 'in the lock screen' sounds weird to me. I suppose you could abstract it a little that the Dynamic Island is a container which the timer is inside and the lockscreen isn't the same kind of container because it doesn't go inside of anything larger. Similarly you can put content in a widget, the widget is in the SmartStack, but the Smart Stack is on the home/lockscreen.
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I like them too. Especially the fern one
I like them too! I don't think they come with iOS, I would love to have the source of those nice wallpapers.
That’s a really nice wallpaper, the on the right side. Does someone has a link?
Hello Populous,
There are, of course, nuances to every language, and one might say that on and in can be interchangeable, but if you were to invert these, I would suspect you were a non-native English speaker.
It’s not that one or the other would be incorrect. It’s just inverting the two in this example would be slightly awkward.
I find it difficult to explain this clearly because it is nuanced. The dynamic island is a more compact space where there are very few things going on “inside” of it at any given moment. It would be more natural for me to say “in” the dynamic island.
The lock screen can have significantly more things happening in a given moment and is a larger full screen workspace. So, it would be similar to saying “I’m writing on this pad of paper“. Could I say writing “in” this pad of paper? Yes, I could say that without grammar issues, but it would also be grammatically awkward.
There is such a thing as grammatical awkwardness, while not directly violating any rules of grammar.
However, this can also vary from region to region. For example, in the upper East Coast people will say, “I am standing on line.” In the rest of the US people would typically say, “I am standing in line.“ Most often people would use in, in this case, because there is no actual line you’re standing on, the line is being formed by people therefore, you are inside of that line.
Hope that was helpful!
Yes I’ve felt this way on the watch. I’ll have a timer going and scroll down my widgets and later I’ll notice that the timer isn’t going at all. It’s paused. And I’m like huh? Must’ve tapped the pause button as I was scrolling. Crazy how Apple missed a detail like that. That as you scroll, you touch things and those things might interrupt the function of the whole app
Thanks. I came here to see if anyone had a lock on these wallpapers. Cheers!
It is, indeed, nuanced, and isn't really a rule, to my knowledge, but more something one gets used to over time. Has to do with spatial relationships of objects, I suppose. Generally "in" is used when one thing is wholly contained within another, while "on" is used when one thing is attached to another, or on the surface of another - "the football team is in the locker room" vs. "the football team is on the field". But, then, "the water polo team is in the pool", because, even though the pool is outside, it's a 3D object (vs. a largely 2D field), and the team is (mostly) immersed in the pool.
And it all gets messier when applied to quasi 3D interfaces presented on flat 2D screens.
And, @Populus, I applaud you asking the question - always impresses me that many people outside the US can speak English better than a lot of people in the US.
There looks to be a somewhat better resolution copy here:
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Instead of 704 x 1528, it's 1280 x 1920, and it appears the first image is sort of the middle half (side-to-side) of the second image.