Yes, You Can Turn Off the iPhone 14 Pro's Always-On Display. Here's How - CNET

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This communicative is portion of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET's postulation of news, tips and proposal astir Apple's astir fashionable product.

The iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max some person a caller and businesslike always-on display. Instead of turning disconnected erstwhile your telephone isn't successful use, the wallpaper connected your fastener surface darkens, keeping the date, time, widgets and different important accusation connected your surface illuminated.

It's a invited caller diagnostic for the iPhone (especially since Samsung Galaxy phones person had it since 2016), but not everyone is blessed with the AOD.

Although Apple claims the AOD uses "minimal power," some iPhone 14 Pro users person taken to Twitter to kick astir battery drain issues with it. Others are unhappy with its brightness, particularly erstwhile it's charging astatine their bedside astatine night.

If you've precocious purchased an iPhone 14 Pro oregon Pro Max and are unsure astir the caller AOD, here's you tin disable it.

How does the always-on show work?

The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models some travel with ProMotion 120Hz screens, which means that your show refreshes 120 times a second. The higher the refresh rate, the smoother, sharper, faster and much responsive your surface feels, which is good, but it does devour rather a spot of power.

While the iPhone 13 Pro models person the aforesaid ProMotion 120Hz screens, they don't person the quality to alteration their refresh rates. Only the iPhone 14 Pro models are susceptible of reducing their displays to arsenic small arsenic 1Hz and refreshing lone a azygous clip per second, which enables the dark, power-efficient AOD.

Apple iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max

Always-on show temporarily turns itself disconnected

Despite its name, the AOD volition occasionally unopen off. Apple has a database of instances erstwhile the show is turned wholly disconnected successful bid to conserve battery:

Your iPhone is look down
Your iPhone is successful your pouch oregon bag
Your iPhone is connected to CarPlay
Your iPhone is connected to your Apple Watch and you locomotion away.
Your iPhone is idle for a portion (according to Apple, your iPhone learns your patterns and turns the AOD disconnected automatically)
Sleep Focus is enabled
Low Power Mode is enabled
You're utilizing Continuity Camera

How to wholly crook disconnected always-on show

All of the situations supra volition crook disconnected the AOD temporarily, but determination is simply a mode to manually disable the caller iPhone diagnostic wholly if you're not a fan.

In the Settings application, spell to Display & Brightness, scroll each the mode down to the bottommost and toggle disconnected Always On.