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Apple's Always-On show diagnostic for the iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max tin amusement important accusation connected the surface adjacent erstwhile the instrumentality is sleeping. While the dimmed Lock Screen whitethorn look similar a WYSIWYG component, determination are really a fewer ways you tin customize it to acceptable your needs better.
How the Always-on Display Works
By design, the Always-On display, which is connected by default, dims the Lock Screen, minimizes onscreen motion, and uses a super-low 1 Hz refresh rate, oregon 1 rhythm per second. This is imaginable acknowledgment to Apple's ProMotion show and different power-efficient technologies.
The dimmed Lock Screen appears immoderate clip you fastener your iPhone oregon permission it idle for nevertheless agelong you person your Auto-Lock penchant acceptable to. It dims debased capable truthful you tin glimpse astatine important accusation without adjacent eyes being capable to spot what's connected the screen. Your privateness is further protected by redacting idiosyncratic information that whitethorn look successful widgets.
When the Always-On show dims the Lock Screen, you'll inactive spot the time, date, wallpaper, widgets, incoming notifications, and Live Activities. However, the surface volition blacken wholly successful definite situations.
If you spot your iPhone look down oregon successful your pocket, the surface volition spell wholly acheronian to prevention artillery life. Your iPhone volition besides spell all-black erstwhile Low Power Mode oregon Sleep Focus is enabled, you link to CarPlay, oregon you usage Continuity Camera. It whitethorn besides disregard the Always-On show mode based connected your routines, similar astatine your accustomed bedtime, oregon erstwhile you're wearing a paired Apple Watch and determination distant from your iPhone.
You tin exit the Always-On show and aftermath your iPhone by tapping the surface once, pressing the Side button, oregon raising your iPhone (unless you disabled Raise to Wake). Additionally, you tin swipe up from the bottommost of the surface to exit some the Always-On show and Lock Screen to authenticate with Face ID and unfastened straight to the Home Screen oregon the past app used.
How to Customize the Always-on Display
Those oregon the basics of however Always-On show works, but determination are things you alteration astir its behaviour and appearance. Here are each the ways we cognize about:
Tip 1: Enable oregon Disable Always-on Display
To alteration oregon disable the Always-On show connected your iPhone 14 Pro oregon 14 Pro Max moving iOS 16.2 oregon later, which should beryllium connected by default, spell to Settings –> Display & Brightness –> Always On Display. From there, you tin toggle the "Always On Display" power connected oregon off. On iOS 16.0–16.1.2, you'll spot the "Always On Display" toggle straight connected the Display & Brightness settings.
Note that Low Power Mode and Sleep Focus volition some disable the Always-On show erstwhile active, but they volition alteration it again erstwhile inactive.
Tip 2: Show oregon Hide the Wallpaper
Also successful the Settings –> Display & Brightness –> Always On Display paper connected iOS 16.2 oregon aboriginal is an enactment to amusement oregon fell your wallpaper, which is connected by default.
According to Apple, the Always-On show uses its "photographic expertise and almighty representation segmentation to dim wallpaper photos portion preserving tegument tones," truthful selfies oregon photos of different radical volition inactive look great. Non-people backgrounds besides look fantastic.
Animations volition freeze, truthful if you're utilizing the Weather wallpaper and it's raining successful your area, for example, it won't amusement the raining animation but volition frost a framework of it truthful you cognize it's inactive raining. If it stops raining, it volition set the wallpaper accordingly.
Still, you whitethorn find your Lock Screen wallpaper distracting erstwhile Always-On mode kicks successful connected your iPhone. If that's the case, conscionable toggle the "Show Wallpaper" power off. It'll springiness you an all-black background, which is much successful enactment with however astir Android devices with always-on displays work.
Tip 3: Show oregon Hide Notifications
Notifications are distracting capable connected your Lock Screen, truthful wherefore bash you besides person to spot them connected the dimmed Always-On show view? You don't. In the Settings –> Display & Brightness –> Always On Display paper connected iOS 16.2 oregon later, simply toggle disconnected the "Show Notifications" switch, which is connected by default.
Tip 4: Dim the Lock Screen Even More
If you're not a instrumentality of the all-black Always-On show inheritance you get with the "Show Wallpaper" power disconnected but find the dimmed Lock Screen inactive excessively bright, you tin alteration the brightness adjacent much portion keeping your wallpaper intact.
You won't find this 1 successful the aforesaid settings arsenic the supra options, and that's due to the fact that it's tied to Focus mode. Whenever you customize immoderate Focus connected your iPhone, too the Sleep (which disables the Always-On display) and Driving ones, you'll person the enactment to darken the Lock Screen erstwhile the absorption is enabled. Go to Settings –> Focus –> [The Focus] –> Options, and past toggle connected the "Dim Lock Screen" switch.
You tin alteration the absorption by swiping down your Control Center and tapping the focus's icon successful the Focus control. If it's not the close icon, you tin pat oregon long-press the Focus power to grow it and prime the close focus.
If you don't privation to alteration however you usage your iPhone, you tin configure the focus's settings truthful that notifications and calls aren't silenced for anyone. You tin bash the aforesaid happening for notifications from apps. And if you don't privation to interest astir turning the absorption connected and disconnected each the time, acceptable it to bash truthful automatically. Just docket it to beryllium progressive each time from 00:01 to 00:00, oregon 12:01 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Tip 5: Schedule the Always-on Display
As of iOS 16.3, determination is nary mode to alteration and disable your iPhone's Always-On show connected a docket speech from utilizing the Focus extremity above. It whitethorn beryllium imaginable to automate via the Shortcuts app 1 time since the Apple Watch has a "Set Always On" enactment (as seen below). But truthful far, we haven't seen immoderate plans to adhd a "Set Always On" for the iPhone 14 Pro models.
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Tip 6: Adjust Your Lock Screen Appearances
Unless you tweak immoderate of the supra options, the Always-On show volition mostly look conscionable similar your Lock Screen, lone dimmed with much delicate accusation successful widgets excluded. So if you privation to alteration however your Always-On display's Lock Screen looks, you person to alteration however your existent Lock Screen appears.
To alteration your Lock Screen's looks, play astir with Lock Screen settings specified as:
- Change your wallpaper
- Change the time's font and color
- Add Lock Screen widgets
- Bold definite substance elements
- Assign a absorption to your wallpaper
- Use Live Activities
- Change your notifications show style
- Hide oregon amusement notification previews
Downsides of Using the Always-on Display
There are a fewer downsides to having an Always-On show connected an iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max:
- Battery drain: Your Always-On show volition usage much of your battery, truthful you whitethorn announcement a alteration successful artillery life. Your existent artillery drain whitethorn beryllium negligible due to the fact that the Always-On show turns the full surface achromatic successful definite situations, arsenic described adjacent the apical of this article. And you tin besides usage Tips 2–4 supra to assistance prevention artillery life.
- Increased surface deterioration and tear: Using the Always-On show means that your surface volition beryllium connected much often, starring to accrued surface deterioration and teardrop implicit time. Your iPhone includes exertion to trim the likelihood of surface burn-in, truthful that shouldn't beryllium an issue, but it's inactive a possibility.
- Security concerns: Your Always-On show tin perchance let idiosyncratic to spot what is connected your surface adjacent erstwhile you are not actively utilizing your iPhone. This could beryllium a information interest if you person delicate accusation displayed connected your screen. However, astir widgets volition obscure oregon omit delicate details connected the Always-On display, and Apple instructs app developers to travel the aforesaid guidelines for widgets and notifications. If you're disquieted astir idiosyncratic seeing immoderate contented successful your notifications, you tin hide notification previews erstwhile locked. You'll person to usage Tip 2 oregon 4 supra to support nosey eyes disconnected your wallpaper.
- Distractions: An Always-On show whitethorn besides beryllium a distraction if you are trying to absorption connected a task oregon enactment and perpetually person notifications oregon spot updates connected your screen. You tin usage Tip 3 oregon 4 supra to region notifications for each oregon immoderate apps, but you'll inactive spot Live Activities.
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