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Latest iOS 16.2 Beta Lets You Disable Wallpaper and Notifications for Always On Display
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No, keep it as is, but also give us options if we didn't like it.
You kinda missed the whole point...
Hopefully they will add the option at some point in the future to add a custom wallpaper for the Aod when in sleep mode.
I said it when people complained about the AOD that Apple will surely make it possible to toggle the background to be black. Its great they listened
Apple slowly but surely fixing things they should have done from the beginning, good to see the progress.
Now let us deactivate the dynamic island on per app basis and the biggest flaws of the iPhone 14 pro (apart from battery life)
Thats....thats a display cut out. There is no screen there.
Nope. Didn’t miss anything.No, keep it as is, but also give us options if we didn't like it.
You kinda missed the whole point...
Still missing the point, there is nothing changing, it will still be the original idea if you choose to, all that is happening is we are getting the option to disable some features, what is the harm in that logic?
I find the music player animation very distracting, I’d like to have no animation happening there while I’m listening to music, we don’t need dynamic island to control music players, we did so before and we do it now by actioning the notification center
Swipe left or right on it and it'll disappear, problem solved.
That is until I open another app or two, then the music player animation on the dynamic island appears again :/
Curious: what about the experience do you not enjoy?
I don't mind the aesthetic, so much. But do think I'll also appreciate the option of just the time and widget info. I'll have to see it in action to know for sure. For me, the overall layout and widget potentials are more limited than what I'd prefer. But theta's pretty Apple. Expect that aspect to open up, slowly, over time.
Having a dim screen wasn't my cup of tea, kept my anxiety too high, and kept thinking my screen was on when it was just AOD, I would prefer a blank/off wallpaper with time and widgets to display only, but not sure about notifications, I'll have to see how that's going to work, having the option in general to disable or enable features is better in general for me.
Unfortunately, I can't comment much about battery impact, as I didn't test it long enough to notice, tried AOD for a day (when I got my 14PM) and was off ever since, so I have no opinion on that regard.
I never looked into Android AOD. Until, of course, Apple offered it and it was listed as yet another thing Apple copied from Android. THEN I google Android AOD’s, and…
I mean… I guess part of the display is always on? Not having ever looked into it I’d assumed that the “display” was “always on”, more like what Apple has on the watch and the iPhone. So, Apple’s going to have to reduce their feature to what some folks have always expected it to mean.
To preface: My first smartphone was an iphone all the way back in Uni. Then I only had androids. and the 14 is the first time I changed back.
SOOOOOO...
I love the AOD? cause I kinda know it and I never understood the complaints of: OMG I always think my phone is on.
I think apples AOD is much better since I have actual notifs, music, batteries etc on my AOD. I effing adore it.
Can't believe it. They do really listen.
It took them 5 years to fix the battery icon, and now it took them only 1 month to fix the AOD on iPhone.
Next, Apple, please, put a permanent silent mode indicator on screen. I'm tired of missing calls occasionally. Fix this issue finally.
It took them 5 years to fix the battery icon, and now it took them only 1 month to fix the AOD on iPhone.
Next, Apple, please, put a permanent silent mode indicator on screen. I'm tired of missing calls occasionally. Fix this issue finally.
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I can get on board with the silent mode indicator as well.
They need to let us select full screen album art on the lock screen by a toggle in settings. If you press anywhere outside of the music controls, even just slightly, it reverts back to the standard view. Extremely annoying.