Did the same. Kept my 13 Pro and bought the Ultra. Love the watch.
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iPhone 14 Pro Max I'm using the Dynamic Island less than I expected
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I never pinch to zoom on videos because then you're losing top and bottom parts of the video.
But without zooming in, 18:9 videos get cut by the pill and not by the noch (on the Pro Max)
Nope. There's a plastic piece inside the phone, where the SIM tray was
I would say it also failed because it was only on the Pro line so the percentage of Mac users who actually had a Touch Bar remained limited hence little interest from developers.
Hopefully we see it on the regular iPhone line next year.
Rumours say all 4 iPhones will have it next year.
It’ll be interesting to see how devs use Live Activities API, and properly use this new area. I think we’re judging something that’s not yet being used.
Some info on it: https://developer.apple.com/design/...components/system-experiences/live-activities
A lot of these comments make no sense. You don’t “use” the dynamic island. All of the UI prompts and notifications are already preset. The dynamic island will do what is does without your input.
Anyway, I’m enjoying the new prompt/notification display the island offers.
Anyway, I’m enjoying the new prompt/notification display the island offers.
I’m talking about the visible exterior edge, which is what I assumed the person I replied to was talking about. It’s just solid now where the SIM tray was.
No, the SIM tray itself was inside the phone—and that space is now taken up by a useless, cheap hunk of plastic. Which is what they were talking about.
I use it alot for switching between podcasts or music and maps while driving. I also like the hit the island game for a minute here and there. I think we will see more implementation in the near future from third party, and even first party, apps.
I might be in the minority here, but I love 3D Touch and Force Touch. I still use it on every Apple product that has it.
It's a frickin gimmick; I returned my 14 Pro Max; not worth the money. The camera upgrade was barely noticeable over the 13 Pro Max.
Ha, and I never realised I could swipe from the middle… go figure!
Upgrading gen-on-gen is always setting yourself up for a disappointment.
From the moment it was announced, I knew it was useless eye candy.
It's the MacBook Pro "Touch Bar" of the iPhone.
I haven’t used it much - I do like that my timer info pops up in it - but I think it looks a lot better than the notch overall, although I don’t really watch videos on my phone, so I can’t speak to it being annoying in a video. I just like that the bezel around the phone is even - looks more finished to me than a big chunk missing out the top.
I think I’ll reserve judgement until the next iOS (or two) updates roll out but I agree it currently has limited use past just being a visual gimmick in my experience.
You’ll be back…this is the design language moving forward for the next few years. You can run back to the old notch for comfort and security but eventually if you upgrade to any of the newer iPhones in the future it’ll be there waiting for you. I say accept it and just adapt to it now. Returning it to rebel won’t change anything
It’s not something you must explicitly use but of course you can if you want. It’s like the volume bar, you don’t explicitly use it, you gather information from it. And when any information shows up around the island it makes you feel good about yourself 😉
A big reason is Apple provided devs no way to access this yet. I *think* the docs are out now but they actually removed the ActivityKit (I think it's ActivityKit) docs for awhile so no one knew how to program for this thing, and you can't use undocumented APIs or your app gets rejected.
Sure.. but I don't think there is a single Apple product that uses 3D Touch anymore? The hardware may be there (iPhone Xs still gets iOS 16) but they're all being gimped by later OS updates and replaced by Haptic Touch.
Right, I know there's some technical differences between all of those. I was simply saying I enjoy that feature and use it daily.
Yep. My three reasons that I returned 14P to continue using my 13P - DI was actually more distracting than notch, and almost never useful. AOD absolutely blows. And the SIM tray thing just felt very odd and I like I was getting cheated out of some valuable internal space. I’m sure in the future when they kill SIM trays globally they will do something valuable. But to me, 14 generation is looking like a big SKIP. At this point I think I will wait til 16 for that Apple Silicon wireless modem.