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iPhone 13 May Feature Apple Watch-Inspired Always-On Display

TheYayAreaLiving said:
This feature has been on Android phones for years now. It is definitely a new welcome change to the iPhone. I believe the iPhone needs it desperately.

I wonder if it will only be exclusive to the Pro models?
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Yeah, welcome to Windows Phone 7 in 2011 as well. OLED makes it possible so it could have happened for the iPhone before now.
 
Daum said:
You mean inspired by Android. I love this feature and am glad that iPhone users can finally enjoy it. Hopefully you guys will get other features like 120hz or maybe even a foldable in the next decade. 🤣🤣🤣
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inspired by Android .. which was inspired by Windows Phone almost five years earlier.
 
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apple thinks the always display is the higher priority than fingerprint ID in COVID time? what is wrong with them
 
Much like with the always on display of the Watch, unless you’re constantly looking at the screen, what purpose does always-on provide that raise to wake or touch to wake can’t accomplish? I turned AOD off on my series 5 Watch, because I don’t need it to show the time and complications when I’m not looking. I know with the Watch, that turning it off provides a significant bump in battery life, although I’m sure with the iPhone it will be a much smaller difference given the size of the battery and what will be allowed to be shown.
 
ctyrider said:
They could implement it intelligently, where the "always on" feature is only active when the screen is unobstructed. So the screen would still be off while the phone is in your pocket, or laying on a table with face down. The technology is available.
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I think you mean lying. Laying is almost never the word you want to use.
 
Before I had a smart watch I really liked having the always on display. But then I moved to the samsung smartwatches (that also had AOD) and it made the phone AOD irrelevant.
 
amartinez1660 said:
Liked the comment, opinions just for kicks:
The Pavlov’s Dog conditioning experiment analogy hits harder for some reason for me than saying the usual “we have become addicted to gadgets/phones/technology/etc”.

Also, the always-on concept in light of this classical conditioning experiment makes it feel like an even more efficient nefarious conditioning tool.
The outcome and training is the same but the tapping step has been removed!
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Sadly I can't disagree. I am definitely down the rabbit hole. I guess I'm hoping a visual cue will somehow dial back the behavioral aspect, but probably not. 😐
 
matrix07 said:
This is why I’m still using iPhone X, happily.. reaching 4 full years soon.
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Still happy with my X too. Best iPhone purchase I ever made. I keep saying I'll upgrade when they reintroduce Touch ID. I don't hate Face ID, but would like to have both. I'm fine with Touch ID on the power button too, like the iPad.
 
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One step to make me come to the iPhone,

although I hope it is integrated in a more though way, for instance when you place your phone in your pocket it actually disables the AOD, it's one of the stupidest thing on my android, it's always-on even though it serves no purpose to BE ALWAYS ON in my pocket.....
 
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TheYayAreaLiving said:
This feature has been on Android phones for years now. It is definitely a new welcome change to the iPhone. I believe the iPhone needs it desperately.

I wonder if it will only be exclusive to the Pro models?
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It’ll be dependant on the 120Hz pro motion display so if the non pro models get that then they’ll get this
 
I would love an Iphone where it's off, but if you reach for it, you don't need to press a button to activate the lock screen. Maybe that's what they mean by Always on, but one of the more underrated things I like about the watch is it turns on when you move your arm up and you can check the time. Seems like that would be ripe for Iphone.
 
amartinez1660 said:
I seriously didn’t think about this. This is a key comment and probably deserves a poll for kicks and giggles: “do you go to other sites to trash their products?”
For transparency, I totally do not go to “Androumors” or “Samrumors” or the like and hang around to discuss and explain how bad androids are and how their thousand cores and thousan GBs snapdragons ARMs won’t beat Intels/AMD CPUs.
Heck, I don’t even look for them except when MR itself shows an interesting feature or piece of news that sometimes does trigger a: “hmm, would be nice to have that I think


I have an Apple Watch SE, which doesn’t have an always on display, however the reaction time is fast that I don’t really see the point, flick the arm: see the HR/Cals/etc continue running.
But I sense that it might be one of those things that once tasted the whole appeal is perceived.

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now, what the heck is a super cycle in the context of a product launch again? Just briefly looking it is explained in the context of a country’s economy at large, like so (paraphrasing): “In Canada, there have been 4 commodities super cycles to date since 1900, used as a metric for gauging trading and stuff”.
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Agreed. I'm on a series 4, and raise to wake on my watch iss still quick and smooth.

As for "super cycle", my understanding is that it refers to a major change and upgrade to the line-up, i.e. 5G and the redesign of the iPhone 12 series, which pushes more customers into upgrading than a normal cycle would. I would love to see a more detailed explanation or interpretation of the term though lol
 
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JokerPower said:
The reality is that iPhone is lagging behind, and it's already a tradition (still no fast charge, no high refresh rate, etc.).
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If you use a bigger power supply, like from the iPad, the iPhone is charging fast. Did you mean fast wireless charging maybe?
Higher refresh rates will come this year.
 
To anyone saying “inspired by Apple Watch?” Questioning if the author meant Apple invented Always-On Displays — here’s what I think was meant by that title:

The iPhone 12s/13 will feature a Lock Screen always-on display that takes user-interface ques from the Apple Watch, and it will use the exact same technologies in the Watch, plus 120hz - not that they invented the technology in general.
 
pankajdoharey said:
It is a Full PC + Handheld, You cant connect a Nintendo Switch to a Screen + Keyboard + mouse and use it as a Full Computer.
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It’s still not original. There have handheld PCs before. The Switch pre-dates this. It might be a fun device. It might be a useful device. But it’s not a revolutionary device.

Plus I gaurentee you more people will get benefit from the Apple Watch than the Steam thing.
 
Krizoitz said:
It’s still not original. There have handheld PCs before. The Switch pre-dates this. It might be a fun device. It might be a useful device. But it’s not a revolutionary device.

Plus I gaurentee you more people will get benefit from the Apple Watch than the Steam thing.
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I agree it is not original, Apple has never made anything original yet they produce revolutionary devices all the time. This device is revolutionary and the first one to use SteamOS on a handhed computer.
 
pankajdoharey said:
I agree it is not original, Apple has never made anything original yet they produce revolutionary devices all the time. This device is revolutionary and the first one to use SteamOS on a handhed computer.
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First, it’s utterly false to say Apple has never made anything original.
Second, the Steam device is not remotely revolutionary. It’s evolutionary at best.
 
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