Months Goes by and Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro (Max) is Still Unused
Dynamic Island three months after
Is a quarter of a year a lot or a little? Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max last September, and now here we are in early January 2023 and still stalling when it comes to taking advantage of the most significant visual change in the lineup, Dynamic Island. Apple needs a community of developers to bring its features to perfection.
More specifically, Apple will show us a feature, but it is initially limited to its titles, and to reach its full potential, it needs third-party app developers to adopt it and integrate it into their solutions. Without this, the result is half-hearted, where the feature only works in certain cases and certain use cases, and this certainly does not add to the user experience.
It’s up to the developers
When Apple came up with Dynamic Island, it made one mistake. It didn’t give developers access to it right from the start. It wasn’t until iOS 16.1 that they could use it for their solutions. Developers are still cautious and rather waiting, although who knows for what.
More likely, they’re more likely exploring what Dynamic Island would be useful for and whether to even address it at all when only two iPhone models out of the company’s entire broad smartphone portfolio offer it anyway.
Dynamic Island is a coveted improvement to a necessary cutout that iPhones have had since the iPhone X, which has practically only changed once in the iPhone 13. But after a month, you get rather tired of it and don’t take it as anything more than what the cutout was.
After the Android apps that successfully imitate it came out, everything actually died down. So it seems like no one really cares about this news anymore. So it still stands that Apple should provide the user with some degree of customization.
Tuning the app for Dynamic Island
When I was preparing this article for you, I wondered if anyone had looked into how to debug apps for use with Dynamic Island effectively, and I was lucky enough to find an article by Filip Němeček — Dynamic Island (and Live Activities): Quick start tutorial.
So if you are an iOS developer and you haven’t implemented or debugged Dynamic Island this tutorial can help you and at the same time give your users the user experience they deserve for the money spent.
In conclusion
I’m really glad I decided not to get the iPhone Pro 14 in the end, as I would have been seeing these little things every day and it would have been really disturbing to me, after all, I don’t see much room for bugs in such an expensive device, even if they are only software related.
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