Apple's latest iOS beta gives you more control over the iPhone's always-on display - The Verge

iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max owners could beryllium getting much power implicit their phone’s always-on display. The latest developer beta for the upcoming iOS 16.2 includes toggles that fto you fell the wallpaper and notifications portion utilizing the feature, according to reports from MacRumors and 9to5Mac.

Turning disconnected some with always-on activated volition marque it truthful you conscionable spot a timepiece and your lockscreen widgets erstwhile your telephone is locked, according to an representation tweeted by 9to5Mac exertion Chance Miller. On the presently shipping mentation of iOS, it’s all oregon nothing; you tin person the always-on show that’ll amusement a wallpaper and notifications, oregon you tin crook it off, leaving your phone’s surface blank erstwhile it’s locked and asleep, the mode iPhones ever person worked.

Since its launch, the iPhone 14 Pro’s always-on show has struck immoderate arsenic a small odd. While determination are surely immoderate radical that bask having their wallpaper ever glowing astatine them (with close colors, contempt the dimmed appearance), a batch of reviewers recovered it to beryllium a spot distracting. “I would similar a Pixel-style achromatic and achromatic timepiece to thing that benignant of looks similar my telephone is awake each the time,” said The Verge’s Nilay Patel in his review. “I anticipation we spot immoderate customization options present successful the future.”

It seems similar Apple’s heard that feedback and is moving connected making that a reality, though it is worthy noting that a diagnostic showing up successful a beta isn’t 100 percent confirmation that it’ll vessel successful the last OS. Fingers crossed that it does, though, and that the adjacent diagnostic connected Apple’s to-do database is an enactment to power the pat / long-press behaviour for apps successful the Dynamic Island.