Are they letting you guys keep your screens on yet? Or is that something that's being saved for 19? Probably not a big deal for most, but an always on display for time, calendar, and alerts without having to do anything to active my phone is clutch for me. When I see other peoples phones with blank black screens they look so dead.

[–] vodka@lemm.ee 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They have actually introduced AOD, but only from the iPhone 15.

Their reasoning for not backporting the feature (unless phone is charging) is that the older models don't have LTPO displays that go down to the 1hz they do in AOD on the 15. A stupid reason imo.

[–] tyler@programming.dev -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Huh? Always on display has been around in iOS for years. Since 2022 with the 14.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

That's like...one, maybe two years

As compared with Android, which is like...decades

[–] vodka@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Ah! You're right, they had it on the 14 Pro and Pro Max. That isn't years though, its barely 1.5 years. (September '22)

It was just not on the normal non-pro models. iPhone 15 non-pro got it though.

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