Person A: “I like this, it suits my use case.”
Indeed. Nearly 3 years later people have realized that face nappies do more harm than good.
I would imagine they would as they do on non 14 Pro. I only ever use iPhone on Landscape when I connect it to my Mavic Drone and even then I do not interact with notifications. But different people may use it differently.
Probably the selfies, unfortunately. But there are ways of balancing both needs without taking chunks out of the screen (e.g. the Sony Xperia 1 IV). I don’t expect you to agree with me, but conversely I’m not going to smile, nod, and pretend that this island is anything other than a step in the wrong direction for the way I use my phone. I am allowed to be disappointed in things that you like, we aren’t the same and don’t need to be.
Of course you're allowed to be disappointed, but you're going to be very alone on that island (ha!).
Listen to music on iPhone? How do you do it? you have a library own your own and sync to iPhone? Do it! And you'll use the island features.
Wow, is that right? Most iPhone users watch videos in portrait mode? That's certainly not the case for me. I use portrait mode to skim through looking for videos to watch, but once I am actually watching a video clip, I turn it to landscape mode. Why watch in portrait? So tiny.
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I don't know a lot about the tech in question, but I always assumed that the screen region over top of the camera would need to be darkened for best image capture quality. Thus, for an under-screen camera, the dynamic island would be exactly the same -- except with the potential option to shrink down into nothing when not using the camera.
I just put on the film Arrival which is 2.40:1 aspect ratio (21:9), and if you double-tap on it, it shrinks down to avoid the notch, so it really is how it works. I'm using the native player too. Why don't you test it for yourself before saying with such certainty? Obviously you then have a 'bezel' around the video, but it's an option. My guess is that it will work the same with avoiding the pill, but of course I'd have to use it to be sure.
mostly asia, googlefi can I use that as prepaid? because if it does you just cost me $$$$ of unnecessary iphone upgrade... 😂
I spend a LOT of money on a device...then I have to pay rent to use it?
Indeed you are right, 21:9 video now switches between fill and fit (“safe” area without going into the notch). I feel like it used to switch between fill and fit (the whole width of the screen as if the notch isn’t there). I have no way of confirming this, and I’ve been using a non-native video player for so long it could have been years ago, or my memory could be faulty. Apologies, and thank you for pointing this out.
Forgive me if I'm overanalyzing, as I have a bad habit of doing that... but I'm skeptical that the Island is your actual reason for not wanting to buy an iPhone 14 Pro. I believe that if you were to place an iPhone 13 Pro right alongside an iPhone 14 Pro, pull up the same movie on both, turn them to landscape and set them to "safe fit" mode... practically everybody would be hard pressed to tell the difference in image size between the two, without pulling out a caliper.
I know, right? 256GB is fine for me, so I was really hoping that was going to be the base so I could save some money.
The problem is that, for me, it’s a step in the wrong direction, and a very expensive one at that. I don’t want “safe fit” surrounded by black bars, I want full screen with either a very small hole punch or no notch/island at all (either using under display camera and biometrics, or a Sony style thin bezel).
Do you have any schematics that show the overlay? Seems like the island is pretty chunky to me, but happy to be proven wrong.
