Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iPhone 14 Pro Standby Mode on iOS 17 at night - turns off after 10-15 seconds

anshuvorty

anshuvorty

macrumors 68040
Original poster
Sep 1, 2010
3,497
5,219
California, USA
Hi,

I just noticed that at night, when I have my iPhone 14 Pro on Standby Mode, the display turns off after 10-15 seconds. Is this normal behavior? Shouldn't Standby mode always show the display?

During the day, I have noticed that Standby Mode doesn't turn off the display or it takes much longer for the display to turn off.

I have ensured that the following settings are enabled:
  • Auto-Lock: set to 30 seconds
  • Always-on Display: set to "On"
1695278118893.jpeg


  • Focus Mode: set to "Sleep"
1695278202505.jpeg


  • Standby settings:
    • Standby: set to "On"
    • Always On: set to "On"
    • Night Mode:
      • Night mode: set to "On"
      • Motion to wake: set to "on"
    • Show Notifications: set to "On"
    • Show Preview on Tap Only: set to "off"
1695278332879.jpeg


1695278373694.jpeg
 
Rob198612 said:
its the bedtime focus

AOD turns off because of it

turn off bedtime focus and AOD will be on
Click to expand...

I turned off sleep focus and AOD and standby stayed on all night. The drawback is my sleep data doesn’t work when my sleep focus is off. I have to choose one or the other.
 
I can explain why this is undesirable. I want Standby to serve as a bedside clock specifically when I am in bed and using sleep mode. If I wake up in the middle of the night I want to be able to glance over at the clock to see the time without the disruption of having to wave my hand to wake the display. The additional waving is a disruption that interrupts my ability to go back to sleep more so than just opening my eyes and glancing at an already-on display.

I can already do this with a third party clock app, though the phone is not locked and will not do automatic nighttime iCloud backups. It sounds like Apple can easily code this as an option.
 
  • Like
Reactions: vtboyarc, ADiddy88, myfoneisdank and 6 others
Sperlsco said:
I can explain why this is undesirable. I want Standby to serve as a bedside clock specifically when I am in bed and using sleep mode. If I wake up in the middle of the night I want to be able to glance over at the clock to see the time without the disruption of having to wave my hand to wake the display. The additional waving is a disruption that interrupts my ability to go back to sleep more so than just opening my eyes and glancing at an already-on display.

I can already do this with a third party clock app, though the phone is not locked and will not do automatic nighttime iCloud backups. It sounds like Apple can easily code this as an option.
Click to expand...
I completely agree here.
 
joey561 said:
Thanks!

Honesty can’t see why this is that much of an issue for anyone really.
I mean, once you’re sleeping, there’s literally no benefit to the AOD remaining on… and if all it takes is a wave of a hand in the air to make it activate again… makes sense to me.
Click to expand...
I don't want to wave my hand. all I want to do is open one eye lid.
 
Sperlsco said:
I can explain why this is undesirable. I want Standby to serve as a bedside clock specifically when I am in bed and using sleep mode. If I wake up in the middle of the night I want to be able to glance over at the clock to see the time without the disruption of having to wave my hand to wake the display. The additional waving is a disruption that interrupts my ability to go back to sleep more so than just opening my eyes and glancing at an already-on display.

I can already do this with a third party clock app, though the phone is not locked and will not do automatic nighttime iCloud backups. It sounds like Apple can easily code this as an option.
Click to expand...
That’s exactly where I am. I don’t want to have to wake myself up more to wave my hand. Before standby I would tap my Apple Watch so it would show me the time; if standby worked as it should, I’d save the effort of moving my arms at all and just be able to glance at my phone. As it is now, my only two options of checking the time involve arm actions that will only serve to wake me up further.
 
  • Love
  • Like
Reactions: AllFish and DotCom2
thecautioners said:
That’s exactly where I am. I don’t want to have to wake myself up more to wave my hand. Before standby I would tap my Apple Watch so it would show me the time; if standby worked as it should, I’d save the effort of moving my arms at all and just be able to glance at my phone. As it is now, my only two options of checking the time involve arm actions that will only serve to wake me up further.
Click to expand...
I think a couple of ios17 features are in beta and need further improvement. Those are:
-Contact posters
-Standby
 
  • Like
Reactions: skrungemaster and DotCom2
techiegirl said:
I turned off sleep focus and AOD and standby stayed on all night. The drawback is my sleep data doesn’t work when my sleep focus is off. I have to choose one or the other.
Click to expand...
I don’t have sleep focus setup, am not in any focus mode, am otherwise set up like the OP, and it’s still turning off the display. Does this mean that a focus mode other than sleep is required?

EDIT: I’ll answer my own question here, it turns off in 30 seconds even in DND focus.
 
Sperlsco said:
I can explain why this is undesirable. I want Standby to serve as a bedside clock specifically when I am in bed and using sleep mode. If I wake up in the middle of the night I want to be able to glance over at the clock to see the time without the disruption of having to wave my hand to wake the display. The additional waving is a disruption that interrupts my ability to go back to sleep more so than just opening my eyes and glancing at an already-on display.

I can already do this with a third party clock app, though the phone is not locked and will not do automatic nighttime iCloud backups. It sounds like Apple can easily code this as an option.
Click to expand...
I suppose here is where individual usage cases come into play.
Personally, if it’s in the middle of the night, seeing the time upon just opening my eyes is only going to disrupt me more. Personally I’d only want to catch a glimpse of the time if I actively decided to - and if I have that frame of thought, waving my hand isn’t a tall order.

We are all different - shame that the functionality is not very useful at the moment for some people.

I’m sure that Apple can and will change this with enough feedback :)
 
  • Like
Reactions: AllFish
The cure for the AOD problem read this below:
(Delete the resting data)
AOD is not really Always On Display.
This has been a problem since the start of iOS16 and has not been fixed.
I too like to glance at bedside clock to see time at night.
I have tried all sorts of settings on my iPhone 14 pro iOS 16.2 for a year and now and I have found only one thing that effects it most: RESTING DATA.
I have found if you scroll down to health data in settings, data access & devices, select your iPhone then find resting data, delete all data. Then in settings turn AOD off, then back on, reboot phone twice. Leave on charge (and landscape) without unlocking with passcode after reboot for 6 hours while you sleep. Then AOD is Always On Display from then on. (Just don’t turn phone off/reboot) otherwise resting data is activated for AOD again and becomes a SOD.
 
Last edited:
I have been reading this thread because I have the same issue with my new iPhone 15 Pro. The problem seems to occur only in a dark environment with Night Mode turned on.

Yesterday support had me simply switch Standby off, then on. I draped a blanket over the phone to see if it would work. It seemed to work then, but would not work last night when I went to bed.

I found that turning off Motion to Wake and then swiping to change the clock face resulted in the display staying on for a while. At 3:30 AM the display was on, but at 5:15 AM it was off. I touched the dis-lay to turn it back on, and it worked until I took the phone off the charger at 8 AM.

Apple expects the display to stay on. I messaged Apple Support yesterday and again this morning, and was referred to phone support. Both support techs tried to get the display to stay on, and agree that the behavior I experience is not correct.

After checking settings the tech had me do a hard reset. If that does not work she will bump the issue up to Engineering.

As a side note, she checked the firmware version of my Mag-Safe charger. Although I bought it a few days ago, the firmware is way out of date.

It is hard to really test the feature during the day. I will get back to Apple tomorrow if it does not work tonight.
 
  • Like
Reactions: vtboyarc
It seems to have stayed on reliably for me last night, in night mode. Still watching it to see if I can figure out a reproducible pattern.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back