Any engineer with half a brain could think of this, having the AOD display turn off when it won’t be seen is an obvious choice.
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iPhone 14 Pro's Always-On Display Intelligently Turns Off When You Leave the Room With an Apple Watch
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As soon as I sit down in my car (as it perceives the Bluetooth connection) it asks me to end the workout.
I guess there are a lot of quarter brain engineers in silicon valley since this has not been done before.
Ah yes, I think it was something like this. Great description!
Ideally the user should be able to manually adjust the trigger distance.
Let’s hope it works more reliably than the feature to unlock your Mac with the AppleWatch - because that is flakey even at the enormous distance of around 50cm/20inch
.Ideally the user should be able to manually adjust the trigger distance.
Let’s hope it works more reliably than the feature to unlock your Mac with the AppleWatch - because that is flakey even at the enormous distance of around 50cm/20inch
Regarding being able to manually adjust the trigger distance: I don't see Apple being the kind of company that would allow that, because it involves a bit more mucking around that, perhaps, the user base of Android likes to do, but is less true of the typical user base of Apple products. Or, I might say it's not in Apple's trajectory of how to interface with devices.
There is some slight reliability issues with unlocking Mac with the Watch, I agree. There are times when I'm right next to the laptop and the Watch isn't triggering the laptop to unlock. I suspect it may be due to radio frequency interference resulting in the Mac interpreting the Watch as farther away than it is? I'm not sure.
That said, I've also had the Watch unlock the Mac at times when I don't want it to. My computer is in my office that is directly above the downstairs guest bathroom. There are times when I'm washing my hands downstairs and the laptop unlocks because it thinks I'm close by (and probably also because a network event triggered the laptop to awake).
I'm sure you'll agree that won't happen.
There are two factors here. Does the Mac sense the Watch? and Does the Mac actually unlock?Let’s hope it works more reliably than the feature to unlock your Mac with the AppleWatch - because that is flakey even at the enormous distance of around 50cm/20inch
I find in some cases that the Mac will sense there is a Mac nearby but not actually unlock it quickly. At least in my house, occasionally it hangs a bit. I'm thinking this second issue wouldn't be problem for a Watch turning on the iPhone display, since it's not actually unlocking the phone.
Are you assuming that they are both looking at a locked iPhone just waiting for time to pass or for notifications to come in? Or are you assuming they are watching a video or doing something on an unlocked iPhone and when Grandpa leaves to go to the bathroom that the unlocked phone will lock itself because it isn’t in proximity anymore?
Maybe there will be a setting for your weird requirement. I guess most customers couldn’t care less.
Judging by Apple's practice here, it's likely not negligible. Low yes, but negligible no.
Then you turn this feature off, and the screen will stay on.
Problem solved.
Apple ought to rename the “Emergency SOS” feature because it doesn’t actually send out Morse code.
I know, but even with a 1 Hz refresh rate, is there not still a risk of burn in on OLED displays? Especially with an Always on Display?
Not an issue with my Watch. It may also be partially be because of the screen brightness. It's much lower in background always-on mode.
How about an option to have the watch ask if you really want to leave without the phone if the distance reaches a certain level (or out of reach). That would be a nice feature!
…or does it already do this? I’m still on iPhone 8 so I might have missed out on something…
…or does it already do this? I’m still on iPhone 8 so I might have missed out on something…
It does. There's a "left behind" notification you can turn on. I think it's part of the "Find my" functionality.
There are already many things that turn off when you don't see them. For instance phones already turn off the screen when held to one's ear. My camera turns off the back screen when the viewfinder is held to the eye. Refrigerators turn off the light when they're shut. Turning off something when it won't be seen to give the illusion of always being on is simply too common a concept to be labeled innovative.