Your overly exaggerated satire aside, that’s exactly what people were saying about ‘dark mode’, and now here it is. So what’s my point? Apple is never early to the game with anything, that means hardware and software implementation. They don’t have to be and I don’t think an ‘always on displays’ is entirely necessary, when you can tap the display/raise to wake, and in similar fashion for the Apple Watch, with raise to wake.
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iPhone X Anyone wish we had a Always On Display?
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Your overly exaggerated satire aside, that’s exactly what people were saying about ‘dark mode’, and now here it is. So what’s my point? Apple is never early to the game with anything, that means hardware and software implementation. They don’t have to be and I don’t think an ‘always on displays’ is entirely necessary, when you can tap the display/raise to wake, and in similar fashion for the Apple Watch, with raise to wake.
I can just see it now....
“The all new groundbreaking Apple Active Display, with notifications and the time!”
Was thinking the same thing.
I have a wallet case (Edward Field) and turned off raise to wake and use tap to wake all the time. lol.
X and onward definitely do
Oooh, good question. I have an Xs Max. Looks like the 8 is the first one to have it? - I'm not really knowledgeable about that.
It’s not a necessary feature. Just a nice to have feature imo.
There are many features from android that have migrated to iOS and that’s awesome but Apple do tend to lag behind innovative-ly speaking and when they do finally bend to pressure for refresh, new features seem to be given begrudgingly so.
There are many features from android that have migrated to iOS and that’s awesome but Apple do tend to lag behind innovative-ly speaking and when they do finally bend to pressure for refresh, new features seem to be given begrudgingly so.
It's an amazing feature which uses very little battery due to the nature of OLED displays.Always on display????....what a nonsense
as far as features like AOD and many others like led notifier, micro sd card slot etc.... it's always best to have it and not need it. then to need it and not have it.
The bolded in your post summarizes it nicely, it’s not a necessity, it’s just a convenience feature. Raise to wake I think suffices for many, and if we were to see an ‘always on display’, I suspect it would be implemented into watchOS before the iPhone, simply because I think that specific device would make the most sense being it’s a watch.