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Google Maps Preparing Live Activities Support Ahead of Dynamic Island Expanding to All iPhone 15 Models
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Google has a notoriously weird incentive structure. Employees who deliver new breakthrough products are highly rewarded; engineers who iterate on existing work are sort of assumed to be wasting their time.
This is why Google launches and cancels so many products. You can bet that every person involved in any project on this page — https://killedbygoogle.com/ — was the hero of the company for about one week, and whomever implements dynamic island functionality isn't getting a bonus this year.
They do not. The best way to use YouTube on an iPad remains via Safari. The app is a UX mess, violates Apple’s HIG, and I’m fed up with “fun” patch notes that say nothing. Never mind the actual service becoming antagonistic towards creators. Alphabet is killing YouTube just like they ruin everything else.
The types of things live activities are meant to replace are for times when you wouldn‘t be looking at the app anyways. It’s mostly a replacement for temporary, context reliant notifications. How does Starbucks make more money by making me open the app to check the status of the food I already bought? If your response would be exposure, wouldn’t putting a picture of the food on my Lock Screen for 10-15 minutes be better than me not looking at all?
I think the real reason is the sluggishness of large companies combined with the minuscule current install base of the dynamic island. Sure, you can have live activities without the island, but they usually go hand in hand. The Lyft article I linked earlier showed the amount of design consideration required for this kind of feature, and I’m sure that has to be signed off by dozens of people.
Apple knows that those all-screen wanters would never stop complaining about how the underscreen camera and sensors cant be flawlessly hidden; not to mention how the image quality is worse with an underscreen camera. They would still see them and whip up a first world problem fury of hastags.
Thats like saying no one should do notifications because its less time spent in the app.
The Dynamic island is such a gimmick. It perfectly examples Apple lack of innovation
Let’s be honest dynamic island is just like the touchbar, it’s neat at the start but then you forget it
And unlike the notch, dynamic island is, well, dynamic. The way Apple used a design tradeoff due to technical limitations into something interactive and useful is most certainly a great use of software. I have never understood the complaints of dynamic island.
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The latest version of the Google Maps app for the iPhone includes hidden code-level references to Live Activities, according to MacRumors contributor Steve Moser. The feature remains in development and it is not yet functional in the app.
Live Activities will allow Google Maps users to view turn-by-turn directions and the ETA in a single live-updating Lock Screen notification, and in the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14 Pro Max. Apple is expected to expand the Dynamic Island to all four iPhone 15 models, which should be unveiled on September 12.
Apple has allowed third-party iPhone apps to offer the feature since the release of iOS 16.1. In February, the Google Maps team announced that it would roll out Live Activities support "in the coming months," but the feature is still not available.
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Getting rid of this notch from 2024 (if the rumours are true) will be the best news ever. I can't believe how Apple Marketing was able to change the narrative and how gulable people actually are. It's still a notch, no matter what exotic name it's given, Lol
HazeAndHahmahneez
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There is no full quality under screen camera in existence right now. I severely doubt it will come next year. Apple also did themselves no favors here if this was their plan, as putting a 4K selfie shooter with autofocus behind the screen would be even harder than a 1080p one, which is what it was before the 14.
Even if it does, the dynamic island will probably stick around as a software feature that can also hide itself when unneeded. They’re throwing too much weight behind it, if it was meant to be so temporary I severely doubt they would have opened up the Dynamic Island API to 3rd party developers. It would piss them off too much. Doesn’t make any sense. Even when 3D Touch got killed it was converted to Haptic Touch, so developers who supported it have the ability for the UI they designed for 3D Touch to live on.
Can't imagine using that. Apple maps are more than enough and working fine. Fantasy Island will come soon with the 15 in my pocket. But google - no, thanks...
Guys you’ll never believe what happened. I was in a car next to someone with an Android phone. Wait! There’s more to the story. I was navigating on his phone using Google maps. And when I switched apps to change the music: a little Google maps Picture in Picture screen stayed visible as an overlay over Spotify. Now THAT’s a live activity. It was a great experience. Why doesn’t iPhone’s PiP extend to other apps…?
All the ones I have seen got abandoned long prior to Lyft’s support coming out in May, Uber got it in January as well. I wouldn’t be shocked if Apple name drops some of the major ones (including some new releases) during the September keynote. Here is the only MR article. The best implementations are Lyft and Flighty imo.
HazeAndHahmahneez
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Eh, for now, having dynamic island certainly does make you a member of a small but growing tribe. Had 8 plus then 12 pro and now 14 pro max and 14 is the first time I didn’t miss my 8 plus, verily, it is in no part due to that other unmistakable artifact, the notch. The notch is great. I certainly remember having 8 plus and saying wow that notch is cool, I’m sort of jealous. It reminds me of a simple but effective design segmentation on other products such as the Nike Air Force 1 or Air Jordan III shoes. THE CURVature and dips of the notch it just…it always looked incredible yet also less elegant when they shortened it’s length for the iPhone 13.
To me, the notch is a more iconic look (hate be damned) and fits with the screen better than dynamic island but the island when properly used (calling ppl for work and music being my main uses) is a pure joy. If only they could put dynamic island in the notch, because after all, the notch does get in the way less during games and content viewing.
This sounds about right but idk I think any sort of interaction with an app is one or should be one of the main goals
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It's still a notch, but one that has some visible functionality to it. I like it, and unless they can completely remove the notch, I'm all for the Dynamic Island. I don't really consider my self gullible, but I did once buy a bridge... lol
...or their ability to make an eyesore (as the notch currently exists) into something functional. I equate it to the bouncing effect when scrolling - it's not necessary, but it adds some character to the UX.
inb4 "its not necessary the galaxy whatever has an under screen camera!" as if those aren't such a major compromise that even android phone preferring reviewers say they came too early... (also, y'know... faceID)
I like the dynamic island (but I hate the name), but I wish it was better utilized. Right now it just feels so limited that it comes off as a gimmick. For example, maybe when the glucose measurement functionality comes to the Watch, the DI could alert the user to crucial alerts (insulin spikes or crashes).