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iPhone 14 Pro Iphone 14 Pro Always On switching off
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It's much worse with 16.2. It's false advertising. Maybe it could be called extended-on display? Certainly not always, and pretty much useless at this point.
It’s actually even funnier. It called an Always On Display (AOD). In settings you can disable it. But their is no setting to actually make it ALWAYS ON…🤣…only Apple could name something an Always On Display that can be turned off but can’t actually be set so that it’s always on!
Unfortunately that does not resolve the issue for me. During the day I have never seen the AOD shut off but it consistently goes black/shuts off at night. Makes it useless for a nightstand clock.
Do you use a Sleep Focus, or have you set an alarm or sleep schedule? Do you set the phone into low power mode for the night? These are likely causes for the display turning off per Apple's documentation:
Keep the iPhone display on longer
On iPhone, you can set the display to stay on longer.
support.apple.com
It's also possible that the phone has simply learned that you don't use it much / at all during the night, and the display turns off because of that (also mentioned on the above page).
No to all the questions. Your last sentence is the problem and their is apparently no way currently to prevent that from happening according to Apple support. So as I have said in several places, Apples “Always On Display” is really a sometimes on display that you can set to never stay on but can’t set to actually always be on…🤣
So happy I found this thread! This AOD behaviour has been driving me nuts! Sometimes it shuts off when I'm on the couch and the phone is next to me while I'm watching TV. There seems to be no pattern from what I can tell.
Always on means ALWAYS ON. I don't want apple to "learn" anything about my habits. I want the display to stay on 24/7 if that's what I tell it to do. Does Apple really want another class action for concealing code? Batterygate not enough? Come on Tim Apple!
Always on means ALWAYS ON. I don't want apple to "learn" anything about my habits. I want the display to stay on 24/7 if that's what I tell it to do. Does Apple really want another class action for concealing code? Batterygate not enough? Come on Tim Apple!
It's a great feature and one that I've been waiting for since Tim Apple became CEO.
The devil is in the details though and the whole point is that the display, you know, STAYS ON.
LOL…yeah I didn’t mean that the Always On Display was the dumbest thing ever. I meant that the fact that it’s an Always On Display that you can’t make stay always on is the dumbest thing ever. I actually think it’s a great feature but you need to have a way to keep it ALWAYS ON…😁It's a great feature and one that I've been waiting for since Tim Apple became CEO.
Should be renamed to Mostly On Display (MOD). iPhone 15 will have the most energy efficient display ever : the Mostly On Display 😂
Brilliant! I'm actually surprised Apple didn't market an MOD for the 14 and then give us a true, just-invented-by-Apple AOD for the 15. If Schiller was still head of marketing, you KNOW that's what they would have done.
Now that you mention it, it does always tend to turn off in low lighting but it is inconsistent. Some nights it will stay on all night, other times it turns off under virtually identical conditions. This is batterygate 2022. They need to be completely transparent with what precise conditions trigger the AOD to turn off. Otherwise, it's the same crapola all over again.
And they need to add a setting to allow you to keep the AOD ALWAYS ON! Their is already a setting to keep it always off. Their are folks out there, like me, who keep their phones on a wireless charging stand next to their bed at night who would like to use the AOD as a nightstand clock. It currently does not work in that use case because the AOD turns off during the night.
100%! I would like to do the same. They can add a setting something like "smart ON" which would function as it is now and "always ON" would be ALWAYS ON. It would be similar to the "5G Auto" and "5G On" cellular settings.