The island hides the FaceID array, just like the notch before it, the dynamic notification part is a feature which is integrated into the static island..It's not really a feature. The adaptive notifications are the feature; dynamic island is the way they implement it to hide those two dead spots.
Unless you want a phone with a big forehead, they could do anything except for having FaceID.Put it this way: If they didn't have those two dead spots, they could do anything. But they do have those dead spots, so they do this particular thing.
Yeah, once the FaceID array goes underscreen notifications will be different.If a future iPhone doesn't have dead spots, it might still have some sort of always-on adaptive notifications (and that certainly is a feature), but it might be less prominent when in standby.
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