Tweaks improve iPhone 14 Pro's Always On Display

Like a lot of people, I'm a bit "meh" on the iPhone 14 Pro's Always On Display.

It's good for quickly seeing the time, but generally too dark to see anything else, like your wallpaper.

Luckily, Apple is tweaking the design. The latest iOS 16 beta adds toggles for turning off wallpaper and notifications in Always On Display mode.

It makes for a much cleaner and simpler look that I like a lot better than the muddy screen you get now. See the post and the featured tweet below.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Apple added new customization options for the iPhone 14 Pro’s Always On Display in iOS 16.2 beta 3. Until now, you could only enable or disable the feature on the new iPhones. The latest iOS 16.2 beta, released to developers Tuesday, provides toggles for disabling wallpaper and notifications in Always On Display mode, enabling a much simpler look.

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Tweet o' the day

One more thing ...

"When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is.... [But] that's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you." -- Steve Jobs, 1994.

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