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Like or dislike Standby Mode?
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I shouldn't have added the optimised part charge, because that is not what I meant.
I was just wondering if your issue was like mine: It stays on all night, except it goes off at some point in the early hours of the night. And when I wake up the screen is off.
Is that what you are having as well? Ir yours goes to sleep immediately after putting it on standby mode.
I have an iPhone 11. It doesn't have an OLED screen so there's no real issue with burn-in, but without the AOD it just turns off after 20 seconds, so is useless to me.
Plus I like to wake up to the radio, so (at the moment) it can't replace a standard bedside alarm clock. Plus, none of the half-screen widgets seem to show if/when alarm has been set.
But it's mainly the fact the screen doesn't stay on. I do like the idea though, and for 20 seconds it looks great! I'm hoping it evolves.
Plus I like to wake up to the radio, so (at the moment) it can't replace a standard bedside alarm clock. Plus, none of the half-screen widgets seem to show if/when alarm has been set.
But it's mainly the fact the screen doesn't stay on. I do like the idea though, and for 20 seconds it looks great! I'm hoping it evolves.
it turns off 30 to 60 seconds after going in standby mode. Providing it's dark, and no movement detected. 100% reproducible, with different kinds of magsafe chargers (Apple & non Apple). And with a 100% healthy (According to Apple) 15 Pro.
Remember what I said previously: in the first night, I also believed it was on all night and went off in the early hours of the night. And found out in the nights after that it didn't stay on for longer than 60 seconds. Also, consider this, depending on the distance to your body/head/arm, it might turn on if you move your head to take a look, due to its sensitivity. So it might feel like it was on anyway, but it wasn't.
Maybe to prevent it from draining your battery.... by accident?
You were 100% correct. I tested it as well and was able reproduce it exactly as you described it. Now Apple has clearly admitted that as originally released it in fact did not always stay on. They released a fix in iOS 17.1 that includes a new setting in Standby. In 17.1 there is a new setting in Standby - The “Turn Display Off” - Never setting. It is a great addition to Standby but just noticed that when you do set it to Never “Night Mode” is automatically turned on and can’t be turned off. Disappointing IMO as I’m not a fan of the red tint display color. Would have preferred the ability to just keep the colors but reduce the brightness based on ambient light. Maybe they will add that to another update sometime in the future.
Honestly I wish they would just add a similar switch to the Always On Display so you can set it to stay always on at night when it’s on a MagSafe charger. I always thought it was pretty funny that Apple had a feature called the “Always On Display” that you could set to be never on but couldn’t actually set to be always on…🤣
I tested the new "never off" feature last night.
In the beginning, it stayed on, and instead of showing the entire display in this dim red tint, the watch hands were bright white, which was almost a little disturbing. But ok, I thought I can live with that. It did not turn off until I fell asleep after 15 minutes or so.
Surprisingly, when waking up in the morning, the display was off. It did not react nor turn on, on waving or any other movements (unlike pre-17.1., where a small turn of the head was sufficient to turn it on). Only when tapping at the screen, the clock display came back, this time completely dimmed and red !?
So it still doesn't work properly imho, and I really don't understand why Apple has not been capable to fix this finally, in particular as they did in fact try to improve standby mode by adding more options.
This night I will try "automatic" mode, to figure out if it behaves like the pre 17.1 - version.
I tested it last night as well. Seemed to work as advertised. I woke up twice during the night, once at around 1:30 and again around 4:30 and it was on both times...so far so good (I did not see any issues with Night Mode, the display was red all night). But when I woke up this morning around 7:45 it was off and did not come back on until I tapped the screen? I'll test again tonight but I honestly don't understand why Apple has such a hard time with making the screen STAY ON? "Turn Display Off Never" seems like it should be rather unambiguous...?
It’s pretty useful during the day, too if you have your phone on charge. That’s why they didn’t call it Nightstand mode I suspect.
Ah, that's a good point! I do wirelessly charge at work at my desk.
The new Standby setting that is supposed to make it stay on all night was just released in 17.1 yesterday...
I don't need to use it as an alarm, I'm retired, but I do want to use it as a nightstand clock so it needs to stay always on...you would think Apple would be able to handle making that happen...LOL
I like standby mode but it appears there might be a bug that keeps the alarm from going off properly when using it. It happened to me this morning and I've seen other reports of it too.
So I can't use it (at least on weeknights) until this is fixed. :/
Hopefully they fix it soon. Seriously in the code path the alarm needs to have the highest priority of any feature in the phone. This is literally a bug that can get people *FIRED*. I have an understanding boss, but many people don't.
So I can't use it (at least on weeknights) until this is fixed. :/
Hopefully they fix it soon. Seriously in the code path the alarm needs to have the highest priority of any feature in the phone. This is literally a bug that can get people *FIRED*. I have an understanding boss, but many people don't.
I’ve had it for a couple of weeks from the Beta and the RC, I have toggled always on. And it stays on for hours…. But at some point in the late hours of the night it turns off.
What I don't like, is that when I wake up and instead of seeing the time... there's a huge reminder on my screen...
It didn’t make sense without the additional info, so thanks. Bottom line it seems like no one at Apple actually knows what ALWAYS ON means…🤣
I was happy they actually implemented "always on that actually means ALWAYS ON" in iOS17.1. But they force me to use the nightmode (red chars) instead which is a showstopper for me since I have slight eyeproblems and red is more or less useless to me. I hope they unlock this so I can have the text-color I want at night aswell, it can't be that many lines of code to fix? 