Dynamic Island is Apple’s pill-shaped « notch » for the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max. It’s interactive and changes shapes and sizes! Here’s how it works.
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(Pocket-lint) – Apple introduced a notch on the iPhone X in 2017. It hid the TrueDepth camera system and the front-facing camera. Over the next five years, iy did little to change how the notch looked and worked. Then, with the iPhone 14 Pro, the rumour mill predicted Apple would introduce a pill-shape cutout for the TrueDepth system and a hole-shape cutout for the camera. Well, it blew everyone away when it introduced something unexpected: Dynamic Island.
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– What is Apple’s Dynamic Island?
Dynamic Island is Apple’s new « notch » for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. Instead of looking like a blacked-out dead space at the top of the screen, it can morph into different shapes and sizes. You can even interact with it. Apple has created an entire software experience for this notch so that it can be genuinely useful and non-obtrusive. It can change to show you incoming calls, alerts, notifications, Face ID authentication, turn-by-turn navigation, music playing, and so on. You can tap or long press on the area to access different functions or launch apps. Think of it as a multi-tasking shortcut – one that still hides iPhone’s TrueDepth front camera as well as the sensors that enable Face ID.
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How does Dynamic Island work on the iPhone?
By default, Dynamic Island takes the shape of a pill. It combines two cutouts to resemble a pill-shaped notch. Apple uses software to add blacken the screen.
No apps or widgets will appear in Dynamic Island if you don’t open a supported app or perform an iOS action.
