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Rumors that the upcoming iPhone 14 will have an always-on display have been circulating for quite some time. The feature was brought up when it was announced that Apple would be adding 120Hz screens to its next smartphone. Display experts like Ross Young and analysts with good supplier connections such as Jeff Pu talked about it for the past year. Mark Gurman predicted Always-On for iOS 16 in June. (However, the Bloomberg journalist this option already for iPhone 13 forecast. – note d. red).
However, the best and most reliable iPhone leaker is still Apple itself, and so the journalists of 9to5Mac Found code in the fourth beta of iOS 16 that controls the behavior of the lock screen on the iPhone. Since the day before yesterday there has been a new state for Apple’s own screen graphics – a so-called “sleep”. If this is activated, the picture on the lock screen is extremely dark. This will result in the display not using as much energy as for brightly lit pixels.
In addition, new screens will be able to go down to an even lower refresh rate of one Hertz, with the iPhone 13 Pro (Max) it is currently 10 Hz. The screen does not have to update itself more often than once a second when it is locked, because the pointer has to be redisplayed once a second to display the correct time with seconds precision. At the same time, this saves energy because the screen for changing the image does not use the battery several times a second, but only once.
9to5Mac also has animation of clownfish background filmed how it changes from normal to always-on. This is reminiscent of how Always-On works on the Apple Watch: the face darkens, the colors fade. If the dial still shows the second hand, it is completely hidden with Always-On. Depending on the data type, the complications are either displayed as placeholders without current data or still show their content, such as the battery display. (macworld)