It’s on charge in MagSafe stand; I have to use sleep focus mode just to shut it but I wish I could keep it on but be dimmer; Apple does change things but never for what I need lol
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Latest iOS 16.2 Beta Lets You Disable Wallpaper and Notifications for Always On Display
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Turning on sleep focus will dim and even turn the screen off. I use it every night.
I agree, if it wasn't for the backlash Apple wouldn't have gone the extra mile.
They made it more like most other vendors’ Alway-On Display, and it comes across as the simpler, better implantation. Apple’s version felt like it was enabled just because Apple’s SoCs could enable it.
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they better i had aod since galaxy s4
Anyone smarter than me know if disabling the wallpaper would save a lot more battery compared to having it on? My understanding is that it's a refreshing the screen so infrequently that regardless if the wallpaper is on or off it wouldn't have a noticeable effect on battery life.
The always on display is great. Always seeing notifications is excellenté. My lock-screen background is current weather.
With everything turned on I am still around 75% charge at end-of-day. Occasionally as low as 60%.
With everything turned on I am still around 75% charge at end-of-day. Occasionally as low as 60%.
I use a Focus Filter that turns on Low Power Mode during sleep hours. This turns the AOD off
For me it turns it off, I wish I could just leave my main phone setting and have aod dim
It's not about refresh, it's the luminance. The display brightness significantly affects battery life. Same reason why AOD on Apple Watch uses a lot of power even though it's 1Hz.
OLED is unlike LCD and each pixel you want lit up uses power.
So I’m suppose to disable my notifications to save battery
I've used enough Android phones with AOD to know what I like. Google's AOD on Pixel phones is one of the best, giving me all the info I need/care about without any of the battery hit that Apple's version has.
Can anyone confirm if enabling this make the whole surround area around the time/date area completely black like on a Pixel?
Can anyone confirm if enabling this make the whole surround area around the time/date area completely black like on a Pixel?
They are soooooo incredibly poor at design.
If I ran iOS I can guarantee the experience would be astronomically better.
Imagine ‘thinking different’ about Always-On and just making the screen the exact same as it looks when it’s on, just dimmed…
No.
Intelligent design? You CHANGE the lock screen design when it’s Always-On because the device is not being held, it’s laying down, several feet from the user’s face. What does this mean? It means you need to remove distraction, increase contrast, and show only what the user WANTS to see, which is GLANCEABLE.
Increase the size of the clock, and date. Remove the wallpaper to increase contrast. Countdown Timers have increased font size, and only display days/hours/minutes. They display seconds only in the final minute. Notifications are completely redesigned for Always-On. No message previews, as those would create increased privacy concerns, and they’d be too small to read from a distance, anyway. Instead, we change notifications to display Large Icons of the respective Apps, and ONLY the important apps, like Phone, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, etc., that the user specifies in Always-On and Notification Settings. You’d simply see a Large App Icon and a Badge indicating how many missed notifications it’s holding. Once you tap the display, or raise the phone, an animation occurs where those fall down the bottom of the screen, and the regular notifications system moves in.
That’s what Always-On should be.
If I ran iOS I can guarantee the experience would be astronomically better.
Imagine ‘thinking different’ about Always-On and just making the screen the exact same as it looks when it’s on, just dimmed…
No.
Intelligent design? You CHANGE the lock screen design when it’s Always-On because the device is not being held, it’s laying down, several feet from the user’s face. What does this mean? It means you need to remove distraction, increase contrast, and show only what the user WANTS to see, which is GLANCEABLE.
Increase the size of the clock, and date. Remove the wallpaper to increase contrast. Countdown Timers have increased font size, and only display days/hours/minutes. They display seconds only in the final minute. Notifications are completely redesigned for Always-On. No message previews, as those would create increased privacy concerns, and they’d be too small to read from a distance, anyway. Instead, we change notifications to display Large Icons of the respective Apps, and ONLY the important apps, like Phone, Messages, Reminders, Calendar, etc., that the user specifies in Always-On and Notification Settings. You’d simply see a Large App Icon and a Badge indicating how many missed notifications it’s holding. Once you tap the display, or raise the phone, an animation occurs where those fall down the bottom of the screen, and the regular notifications system moves in.
That’s what Always-On should be.
Agreed... gives me anxiety that I left my phone on and it's draining battery or is insecure or whatever. I know it's just conditioning but still...
And, for the large majority of folks that will ever obtain the iPhone 14 (between the middle of December and next September), that’s how it’ll be!
I would also like the option to remove the date and time and the option to replace them with other widgets.
I turned off AOD after a week as it felt like a gimmick and thus a waste of battery. I much prefer this implementation however is it my imagination or is the dark/black area of the screen still lit? Albeit at the lowest possible setting?
That's a shame. They had it right to begin with, and did it better. I don't like seeing them kowtowing to users who's only feedback is "AHHH DIFFERENT MY ONLY POINT OF REFERENCE IS ANDROID SO THATS HOW IT MUST BEEEEEEE."
Until they fix the battery life on iOS 16, no thanks. I turned that **** off within a week. Especially after seeing testing people did.