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iPhone 14 Pro's New Dynamic Island Features Camera and Microphone Indicators as Rumored
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Feels like the Dynamic Island was the star of the show yesterday.
What I really want to know is if there will be an Apple Watch-style red dot up there when you have new pending notifications?
Combined with the AOD, this would actually be perfect. You don’t want your notifications visible when your screen is always on, so instead just have a red dot visible in the dynamic island.
Combined with the AOD, this would actually be perfect. You don’t want your notifications visible when your screen is always on, so instead just have a red dot visible in the dynamic island.
At least 4 years? The notch in 2018, pill in 2022, what will 2026 bring...I suppose this means we’re going to have that black spot / notch on the top of our screens for a long time, it would be dumb to invent something new and then get rid of it with the next generation of iPhone
It’s there just to maintain a separation between the bezel and the dynamic island when it grows in size. If they didn’t push the pill cut out down like this, what you’d end up with is a large black blank spot at the top of the device, which would not look good or give you the sense that the cutout is more than just the spot where the camera sensors are. It’s really a brilliant design implementation that no other device manufacturer has tried to do.
There is no technical reason the notch couldn’t become dynamic, but the issue is graphically it would look bad. You’d end up with a larger black area at the top of the screen. It’s why Apple moved the cutout down from the bezel so you see some contrasting screen area between the dynamic island, especially when it grows in size.
How is a user supposed to transfer data on a 1 TB iPhone using a lightning USB 2 cable?USB-C
The 2 coolest features from yesterday were Dynamic Island and Watch Ultra. One we knew everything about, the other a total surprise. I’m shocked that none of the rumors proposed anything like Dynamic Island. Kudos to Apple on that.
That’s really the point I was making. That Apple somehow turned what’s essentially still dead space at the top of the phone into something to celebrate, simply by marketing it.
If they had called the notch the “Curvy Notch”, this means they were trying to market it as a good thing, instead of what it was: just dead space.
To be clear, the notch didn’t bother me, really. Especially since they didn’t try to market it as something really that great.
Calling the new dead space pill a “Dynamic Island” makes it seem like Apple is trying to pull the wool over our eyes by selling the dead space as a big improvement over the notch — or even worse, something we should love more than not having it there in the first place.
They’re not trying to pull the wool over our eyes, rather they’re making lemonade from lemons - taking the cutout space and incorporating it into something that would otherwise disrupt other areas of the screen anyway. It’s very effectively creating a dynamic multi-tasking space on-screen and hiding the camera and sensors within that space. Sure, it would be great if they could instead hide the camera and sensors under the screen, but we’ve all seen what kind of photos you get when this is done and that just isn’t acceptable to Apple.
People will get used to the name eventually. We saw so much ridicule when Apple first rolled out the 3D Touch name on the 6s. After a few years it just became normal for people to say it.
And different colors for different apps or people would be cool. At the very least be able to customize the red dot for the notifications you deem most important.
SloooooooooooooooooowlyHow is a user supposed to transfer data on a 1 TB iPhone using a lightning USB 2 cable?
I disagree. I am missing this on my iPhone 8 as I type this. I wish my phone had it. And soon, it just may.
I am getting the sense you don't like the dynamic island much.
But it feels very short sighted. They’ve been working on trying to get rid of it, only to now double down and build quite a bit of functionality into something that will likely (hopefully) get completely removed.
Even worse, they (and MacRumors) are making this into a main selling point of the 14 (e.g. the only thing that remained a secret).
I don’t really mind Dynamic Island to be honest. Seems like a well implemented feature for what it is, but it seems a bit like putting a wedding dress and lipstick on a frog.
I really can’t believe they double downed on the notch and made it even more intrusive. They seem to actually be embracing it as a feature when I doubt it will be around for more than a generation or two cause we know under display faceid is coming very soon. I don’t think this generation of phone will age well cause the full screen ones are right on its heel according to all the reports out this year.
In summary, I'd say the people that compared this to the touchbar pretty much nailed it.
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I’m assuming when you’re watching a video and not in full screen that you cannot see the pill just as you cannot see the notch if your video is not in full screen mode. Once you double tap the video it goes full screen and you can see the notch and you should see the pill then.
By plugging it in?! 😂How is a user supposed to transfer data on a 1 TB iPhone using a lightning USB 2 cable?