1 year ago
56
The iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max person a fistful of flashy bundle changes, specified arsenic the Dynamic Island for showing strategy alerts and a highly anticipated always-on display. That second diagnostic isn't caller exactly. For years, Android devices person had an always-on show that shows indispensable accusation erstwhile the surface is off. What you spot is simply a achromatic surface with the clip and day and sometimes icons for notifications. But the iPhone's mentation has Apple's ain twist.
The 14 Pro's always-on show shows the clip and day (along with widgets) against a darkened mentation of your wallpaper photograph alternatively of a achromatic screen. I've been utilizing the iPhone 14 Pro for astir 3 months, and it took astir fractional that clip to get utilized to the always-on show due to the fact that it looked similar my telephone was unlocked. While Apple deserves praise for figuring retired a mode to marque the always-on show look astir identical to the regular fastener screen, there's a problem. Some of america privation an always-on show that's much discrete and doesn't gully attention.
Lucky for us, iOS 16.2 is the answer. The beta mentation of iOS 16.2, Apple's adjacent iPhone bundle update, present has controls that fto you crook disconnected the wallpaper erstwhile the always-on show is active. That means you tin yet person a coagulated achromatic inheritance for your iPhone's always-on show without changing your fastener screen's photo.
If you privation to effort it out, spell into Settings, pat Display and Brightness and take Always On Display. From there, you volition spot options to amusement wallpaper oregon notifications. Disabling Show Wallpaper gets you a achromatic always-on display.
In our tests, utilizing the iPhone 14 Pro's always-on show didn't shorten artillery life. But some radical person had the other experience. For those who person experienced artillery beingness issues, hopefully substituting the fastener surface with a coagulated achromatic inheritance volition code those concerns. I should besides adhd that, successful general, our tests recovered that the iPhone 14 bid has a shorter artillery beingness than the iPhone 13 series.
The iOS 16.2 update is presently successful beta and a last mentation volition apt beryllium disposable successful December, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman successful his newsletter. If you're funny successful trying the nationalist beta version, read our iOS 16. 2 beta guide, which walks you done the process.
Now playing: Watch this: iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max Review: Tons of Upgrades,...
14:11
