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iPhone 15: What Dynamic Island Does and How to Use It
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Because they finally fixed issues that were created 4 years ago. And because battery life improves. And because the 13 pro took the worst photos ever with the watercolor processing. This 14 pro seems better so far. Many reasons ti upgrade yearly.
They still shouldn’t push new features until they are fully realized. And work faster to fix them.
That is what girlfriends and wives are for.
I think it is off to a very good start. I have seen a few minor UI quirks which, Apple will fix soon enough. I am looking forward to the expansion of use with third party apps.
I see what you mean about the inconsistency. I tried it with the audio playing in DI and rotated in Safari, and everything blacked out as described.Thanks, someone did show that the Icons on the DI do rotate, like the headphones one however I noticed on dave2d review other pop ups were not the DI expanding but a whole new land mass created
I understood that DI was trying to add consistency of some notifications but seems has created its own inconsistency
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Is this representative of bright sunlight and does 2000 nits make DI illusion worse ?
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That sunlight image seems a little different than I’ve seen. Mostly the DI stays very black, and the sensors are about as visible as they are in the notch.
When using the phone I don’t notice the DI much more than I did the notch - it’s at the top while I’m doing something else, and I can access a few things there if needed.
Because that never happens, since they keep adding new semi-baked stuff and don’t fix many issues from previous years. It’s a perpetual work in progress.
I think the Island is a neat feature built around hardware modules. It’s not perfect but better than the notch.
To address some of the questions here, in semi-bright light, the pill and hole punch are fairly obvious but it’s not distracting. Also depends on the angle.
For me, the most distracting aspect of the island is the outline around it when using dark mode. I set my phone to always use dark mode so I see this often. Essentially, the Island gets a glowing effect to needlessly separate it from the status bar.
To address some of the questions here, in semi-bright light, the pill and hole punch are fairly obvious but it’s not distracting. Also depends on the angle.
For me, the most distracting aspect of the island is the outline around it when using dark mode. I set my phone to always use dark mode so I see this often. Essentially, the Island gets a glowing effect to needlessly separate it from the status bar.
Yeah, they keep adding features. But I’ll like to think next year Dynamic Island will be a complete thought… it was introduced this year. With Apple, there’s the S years where the features have a clear understanding of its use cases and devs get more accumulate to the hardware.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Notifications for example are still a mess after I don’t know how many years.
Expecting unexpected features? Interesting choice of words. 😂
Notifications a mess? How so? I’m an Android user now… but when I had an iPhone there was never any issues with notifications.
Even though I just got a last year model, makes me want to get the 14 pro, but I shall wait for the 15 when all the kinks are worked out.
Agreed. That's the biggest flaw I noticed after switching from Android. I still miss the way Android handles notifications.
See here for example: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/lock-screen-notification-hell-merged.2358398/
This had been reported since Beta 1 and has remained unfixed.
In iOS 15 and earlier, notifications already behaved non-intuitively. A personal pet peeve is that push notifications are not correlated with the respective app state. E.g., when I read a message in some IM app for which a push notification was previously sent, then the notification still stays around and I have to dismiss it separately, although the app knows that I already read the notified message. It seems to be a protocol limitation that apps cannot dismiss their own notifications when the reason for the notification has become obsolete. That’s just very inconvenient. Yet another issue is that there is no notification history. Once you’ve dismissed a notification or a group of notifications, which sometimes can happen by accident, there’s no way to access them in a history.
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It works like this: it puts buttons and such as far away from your thumb as possible. But it sure looks neato.
tell me you're a "glass half empty" kind of person without telling me -_-
time to ignore the comments on this site for another year.
Tbf, this is a situation where Apple has designed notifications differently where users have to adjust to the new change.
Maybe it’s with 3rd party apps. But I personally never had any issues with this… since I mainly use Message or Mail app and it will delete the push notification when I read it in that particular app.
And this is considered a mess? There’s notification history on Android and I don’t use it.
Please someone explain why this exists?
The hardware is WORSE than the notch as it uses up more screen real estate.
I literally see no benefit hardware wise, it’s objectively worse for users, and they could have done stuff in software with black background notifications around the notch.
They could have expanded the notch on both sides into a “dynamic bar” or maybe even call it the “Touch Bar.”
The hardware is WORSE than the notch as it uses up more screen real estate.
I literally see no benefit hardware wise, it’s objectively worse for users, and they could have done stuff in software with black background notifications around the notch.
They could have expanded the notch on both sides into a “dynamic bar” or maybe even call it the “Touch Bar.”
Because this article was sponsored content.I still do not understand why these reviews fail to show how DI behaves in landscape and looks in bright sunlight
Because with Notch 1.0, the official party line was that we love the notch. Remember, they even published guidelines that apps shouldn’t do anything to try to hide the notch. Yet surprisingly, people continued to hate having a giant cutout on their screen. So Party Line 2.0 is to try to hide Notch 2.0. And the strategy is to act like it’s an amazing new “feature”. And MacRumors is devoting A LOT of content to help facilitate that narrative.
This comment is extremely underrated and should have more likes, it's hilarious and somewhat true. You know what they say, the best idea is a stolen idea.xbox did it 2005….
And before you go responding with, Android did this, Google did that, windows copied this... squawk, squawk, squawk! I get it. I know. They all do it. Doesn't make the comment any less funny.
Thanks for making me laugh today Muzzakus!