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iPhone 14 Pro Is the Dynamic Island really annoying?
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Yes. It sucks. They provide no way to turn it off either.
It is the "touch bar" of iPhones.
Just kill this crappy tint around or at least give us a button to turn it on or off if someone is having health problems to click this part of screen and make his face camera dirty
Have had the 14 PM for three days now. The sole reason for wanting the 14PM are the cameras. After deeply excavating my pockets, I ordered and although I do like some aspects of the DI, I wish my iPhone had a simple notch. I have the following observations:
- The DI draws attention to it more than I like
- It is in the way when watching a movie full screen
Especially the movie experience I find distracting. During my first movie session I resized the movie making it smaller in the frame, thereby excluding the DI.
All that said, having a top notch piece of tech is a great privilege. And coming from an iPhone 6s - 8plus I get more screen real estate anyway. But for me a standard notch like on the 13PM would have been better.
- The DI draws attention to it more than I like
- It is in the way when watching a movie full screen
Especially the movie experience I find distracting. During my first movie session I resized the movie making it smaller in the frame, thereby excluding the DI.
All that said, having a top notch piece of tech is a great privilege. And coming from an iPhone 6s - 8plus I get more screen real estate anyway. But for me a standard notch like on the 13PM would have been better.
I know there's a key in my fob, but is that just for the door? I have to check my vehicle later to see if there's an actual keyhole for the ignition. Thought I read it might be behind the button?
Yes that's one good thing for push button is you can have a trillion keys without keeping the ignition key separate so you don't mess up the ignition setupmy all-time favorite car was my Saab 9-5(and the 9000 Aero before that)..... yes, the quirky cars with ignition switch in the middle and the keys rattling while you drive around. Still sad that Saab is gone...
I do not find the Dynamic Island annoying at all, the notifications that cause it to expand (that I have received) are well timed in my opinion to see the notification and then it is gone. Since I use Dark Mode, all of the apps that integrate a dark mode does a good job at hiding it (or using it like Apollo for Reddit). I have seen very few bugs, but nothing that causes headaches, I just wish some devs especially the bigger ones adjusted the UI to reflect the Dynamic Island better. One example I have is Pokemon Go that my kid loves, I have noticed some clipped UI elements, but it isn't to the point where you can't make out what it is, but it does make the app look unpolished especially from a big dev.
Well after having the 14 pro for a couple of weeks now I do find the dynamic island a bit irritating with the Face ID for apps etc how it enlarges with a big tick but it’s not the end of the world. I wish you could turn this animation off or make it more subtle.
My only annoyance with the DI is that it doesn't work for notifications... I have this cool little notification hub and messages, emails, 3rd party notifications etc.. are still sliding down from the top and look horrible when they settle under the DI.... I really thought this is what the DI was meant for when it was introduced.. I get the 3rd party apps not having it yet but why not the native apps?
Three days is not enough. When the notch first came out, it took like 1-2 full weeks to get "used" to it. As in, ignore my peripheral vision of a new object seen.
@sorgo : Did I miss something? What is wrong with the screen? Are you referring to the green colour cast we see when we look at the screen from a steep side angle?
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It was objectively more intrusive before…right in the middle of the screen. At least it’s at the top now…along with low-battery notifications. They could have of course done this before the DI, but still, these system notifications are objectively more out of the way now.
I’m not finding the DI adds really anything to my experience using an iPhone but I still prefer the look of it to the notch.
In landscape mode, 100% of the time it isn't doing anything at all at least in any of my use cases (apps, games, YT, etc).
The DI sits slightly lower on the screen, so that does bother some people depending on the aspect ratio of the video though.
well.... the key to my front door is sitting on my front porch. anyone can just take it and open the door.... well, not exactly... he/she will have to know which key it is first. you see, the correct key is in a large clear glass cookie jar, mixed in with about 300 other keys.(bought them as big bag of old used keys from eBay several years ago for a project) Of course, everybody in my family knows which key it is... we just have to dump all the keys out and we can tell which one it is within 5 seconds.
