So what went wrong with Dynamic Island, Apple?
The most promising feature of iOS 16 failed to deliver — how can it be saved?
Apple’s WWDC 2023 event is less than three weeks away and, as is usually the case, there are more rumors than ever making the rounds on the Web about what the new versions of iOS, iPad OS, macOS, watchOS and TVOS have in store for billions of consumers across the globe. There’s one iOS feature in particular, though, that some of us are quite curious to see how it will be handled by Apple, maybe even more so than any new ones: the Dynamic Island. That’s mainly because it’s hard to shake the feeling that, well, we’ve been here before — twice, in fact — and that how Apple handles this might prove to be rather important in the future.
For anyone in need of a reminder, the Dynamic Island is Apple’s version of the pill-shaped cutout that many Android smartphones had adopted over the years for the selfie camera — only, in the case of the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, that camera cutout was actually disguised as an interactive part of the screen that morphed into different shapes depending on different functions of iOS 16. It was the kind of original, delightful feature — “so very Apple” in nature and execution — that impressed a lot of people and piqued the interest of many more in terms of possible future…
