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Standby mode turns off after a minute or so

I was able to get the Standby display on my iPhone 14 pro to stay on all night last night.

In the past, I have been using a belkin WIZ010 MagSafe/MFi charger, and the display would always to go black. Last night I plugged in the phone directly using a lightning cable, and the display stayed on all night. So possibly related to MagSafe charging?

The only other thing I need to test is the orientation… On the MagSafe charger, I had the top of the phone rotated to the left. When I used the lightning cable I had it rotated to the right. Probably not related, but worth trying it rotated to the right on the MagSafe charger.
 
Only Apple could create a feature called the Always on Display that you can set to be always off but can’t actually set to be really always on…🤣. It makes the new Standby mode for using my 14 Pro on my MagSafe charger as a nightstand clock useless for me. I need it to be ALWAYS ON so that if/when I open my eyes in the middle of the night I can glance over and see the time. Guess I’ll go back to using my nightstand clock app which actually stays ALWAYS ON all night.
 
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wags1 said:
if/when I open my eyes in the middle of the night I can glance over and see the time
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This is what you need. Long enough to trip the movement sensor.
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ibehardnock2001 said:
Guys. For those with AOD, you have to go to your "Stand By" under settings. There is a separate toggle switch called "Always On" which is described as 'when enabled, the display will intelligently turn off when not in use' you have to switch this off. The standby mode screen will now remain on the entire time.

Under night mode, if you like the red tint (like the classic night stand clocks) then enable "night mode"

The default setting is having the Always on toggle switch on under Standby so all other iphones WITHOUT the Always on Display can enjoy the Standby without having their screens burn in.

Hope this helps.
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14 Pro Max and 15 Pro Max.....standby mode goes blank after about 30 seconds whether the "Always On" toggle under Standby Mode settings is set to on or off. Always on Display is set to "On" in Display settings.
 
ibehardnock2001 said:
Guys. For those with AOD, you have to go to your "Stand By" under settings. There is a separate toggle switch called "Always On" which is described as 'when enabled, the display will intelligently turn off when not in use' you have to switch this off. The standby mode screen will now remain on the entire time.

Under night mode, if you like the red tint (like the classic night stand clocks) then enable "night mode"

The default setting is having the Always on toggle switch on under Standby so all other iphones WITHOUT the Always on Display can enjoy the Standby without having their screens burn in.

Hope this helps.
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ibehardnock2001 said:
The toggle swtich literally says that if this is on, your display will intelligently turn off.

The ONLY way to keep it on the entire night is by turning it off.
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DotCom2 said:
Well all I can tell you is that I have it on and mine stayed on all night.
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OK, I'm now starting to think this might be a state-synchronization bug in the StandBy preference pane?

I had AlwaysOn on, and it was turning off after about 20 seconds. I turned AlwaysOn off, placed the phone on the stand, same behavior. I turned AlwaysOn back on again, placed the phone on the stand, and now it stays on.

Perhaps this is something people can try - if just toggling AlwaysOn on the StandBy page doesn't work, try the combo of OFF, then invoke StandBy, then ON, then invoke StandBy. There is something in that sequence of events which restored the desired behavior.

I'll report back in in the morning if this behavior actually sticks.

EDIT: @ibehardnock2001 - Riffing on your idea that it's supposed to support phones without an actual AOD, what I wonder is if that text is only supposed to appear if your phone is < 14 Pro/Max, and _that_ is a bug. For phones >= 14 Pro/Max, AlwaysOn can leave the display on, but for others, it needs to shut it off intelligently, and they're not communicating _that_ properly.
 
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thecautioners said:
i have that toggled on yes
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I know this sounds like putting tinfoil on your TV antenna and holding your left arm out toward the TV station, but have you tried:

AlwaysOn enabled, then lock phone, place on stand, let it shut off
Remove from stand, then AlwaysOn disabled, lock phone, place on stand, let it shut off
Remove from stand, then AlwaysOn enabled, lock phone, place on stand, does it stay on now?

When I performed that set of steps exactly, it started working. Not just turning AlwaysOn off then on, but putting it through a cycle on the stand. I'm not saying this _will_ help, but I'm curious to see if my experience so far is a fluke.
 
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So, there's definitely a bug in there, IMO. It didn't work for me last night because I had Sleep Focus, which is known to disable that. Woke up, turned off Sleep Focus, and AlwaysOn didn't work until I went back to StandBy preferences, and toggled AlwaysOn off, and then on again. Now it stays on.
 
Ridiculous all the gyrations one has to go through to get this thing to work. I am very disappointed in Apple touting this new "feature" and not supplying any proper direction on how to make it work.
 
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DotCom2 said:
Ridiculous all the gyrations one has to go through to get this thing to work. I am very disappointed in Apple touting this new "feature" and not supplying any proper direction on how to make it work.
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Honestly it should be very simple. Just have a setting in the Standby settings screen, call it “Nightstand Clock Mode” and if you turn it on and your phone is being charged the standby display is actually ALWAYS ON. Name the current “Always On” setting something else because it obviously isn’t…🤣. It should be that simple, but it’s not cause it’s Apple and they need to be “clever”…
 
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My experience has been 2/5 nights where it stayed lit all night. I can tell from screen time showing gray bars all the way throughout the night until i wake up.
 
DotCom2 said:
Ridiculous all the gyrations one has to go through to get this thing to work. I am very disappointed in Apple touting this new "feature" and not supplying any proper direction on how to make it work.
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And the really frustrating aspect of it is that this never happens when it's off the stand - the display NEVER shuts off during the day, off the stand.
 
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StumpyBloke said:
Just to confirm: you do not have sleep focus on do you? That will ensure the display does go off.
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I can confirm two things - First, that before I did my toggle-activate Standby-toggle-activate StandBy, that it was shutting off in the middle of the day, outside Sleep Focus, even with Sleep Focus removed from the phone.

Second, since I went through that little configuration dance, it was awake reliably even IN Sleep Focus, which I did not expect to happen.
 
So I'm confused. Does standby mode stay on all night or not? Is it supposed to? I tested it, and mine shut down after inactivity and would turn on with movement (I have Always on set toggled On). I would prefer it stay on all nite so I can just glance at the clock if I wake up in the middle of the night.

What does it do and what is it intended to do under these circumstances? Also is "always on display" (in display and brightness) separate from "always on" under Standby. They seem to be 2 different functions.

I also have, under night mode, "motion to wake" toggled on. I wonder if turning off the wake on motion thing, will stop it from going dark at night? Since it won't expect to wake with motion and thereby keep it on permanently at night?

Not clear how all the settings interact. Why have "always on" under standby mode -- isn't that the whole point? The apple designer here was over thinking this. If you don't want standby mode to always be on at night, then there should be a switch to "turn screen off during set hours" (then you set the hours, like 11 PM to 6 AM).
 
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My 14P goes into Standby mode when I place it horizontally on the MagSafe charger, but the screen turns off after about 20-30 seconds or so. If I then simply TAP teh screen, it goes back on and stays on. Bizarre.

In Settings:
- Under "Display & Brightness", I have the 'Always On Display" set to On.
- Under "StandBy", I have the StandBy toggle set to "On"
- Under "StandBy", I have the "Always On" toggle in the section DISPLAY set to "On"

How these three toggle switches interact is a mystery to me...
 
WaitingForGuacamole said:
I can confirm two things - First, that before I did my toggle-activate Standby-toggle-activate StandBy, that it was shutting off in the middle of the day, outside Sleep Focus, even with Sleep Focus removed from the phone.

Second, since I went through that little configuration dance, it was awake reliably even IN Sleep Focus, which I did not expect to happen.
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Apple really have dropped a bollock with this. There is exactly zero consistency across devices, versions, set ups, you name it. No one will ever convince me the management use their own software!
 
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WaitingForGuacamole said:
And the really frustrating aspect of it is that this never happens when it's off the stand - the display NEVER shuts off during the day, off the stand.
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This has been my experience as well. Makes no sense at all. Like I mentioned in another post, this would be very simple to fix with a setting in the Standby settings which could be called “Nightstand Clock Mode” which would keep the Stanby display ALWAYS ON when charging.
 
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StumpyBloke said:
Just to confirm: you do not have sleep focus on do you? That will ensure the display does go off.
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I can confirm that I do not have sleep focus enabled, never have, don’t use it. Unfortunately the AoD does not stay always on. The only time I have ever seen it actually stay always on is during the day when I don’t have it on a MagSafe charger…which is in fact when I don’t really need it to stay always on…🤣
 
caesarp said:
So I'm confused. Does standby mode stay on all night or not? Is it supposed to? I tested it, and mine shut down after inactivity and would turn on with movement (I have Always on set toggled On). I would prefer it stay on all nite so I can just glance at the clock if I wake up in the middle of the night.

What does it do and what is it intended to do under these circumstances? Also is "always on display" (in display and brightness) separate from "always on" under Standby. They seem to be 2 different functions.

I also have, under night mode, "motion to wake" toggled on. I wonder if turning off the wake on motion thing, will stop it from going dark at night? Since it won't expect to wake with motion and thereby keep it on permanently at night?

Not clear how all the settings interact. Why have "always on" under standby mode -- isn't that the whole point? The apple designer here was over thinking this. If you don't want standby mode to always be on at night, then there should be a switch to "turn screen off during set hours" (then you set the hours, like 11 PM to 6 AM).
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It makes zero sense to me as well. Either the developers have never really used it/tested it or none of them know how a nightstand clock really works.
 
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Thornmary said:
Hey guys


Rather clear info on Apple’s website here - https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph878d77632/ios

Note the need to push the side button once on the charger. Without that step, it wasn’t staying on all night. Now that I know to do this, it stays on all night without fail.

It also clearly states the phones this will work for. All others switch off after a set period of time.
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Not how it works for me. I’ve always pressed the side button once it’s on the charger and in the correct rotation. It still goes off with sleep focus enabled.
 
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