Always on Display turns off with iOS 16.2

nyc_rock wrote:

just did a chat with apple support and turning off is the way it was intended to operate. Hopefully apple listens to user feedback and allows us to set it to "Always On".

Make sure you submit that feedback where Apple will see it:

Product Feedback - Apple

Device: iPhone 14 pro 256GB

iOS: 16.4.1

I keep finding that the AOD option under Settings>Display keeps getting toggled off.

i have set a "Do not Disturb" Focus to turn on every night at 10:30pm and to turn off at 6:00am every morning. As part of the Focus, i have toggled AOD off during its duration. at 6am, when the focus goes back to normal. the AOD option continues to be toggled off.

Is anyone else experiencing similar complaints?

Well, I spoke too soon. Screen still randomly turns off some days, other days are fine. No pattern on time of day, 100% random. Does seem to happen more if its darker in the room. I do not have any focus modes enabled.

iOS 16.4, 16.4.1, and 16.4.1(a) have all shown this behavior.

Same here. Like you’re using my iPhone 14 pro max.

so, what do you think, is it software or our phones?

I’ve done a hard reset twice. Months apart. Worked both times. Had to Google it though to make sure I was doing it right.

The software!

Not fixed in IOS16.5 either.

I purchased two iPhone 14 Pro Max, the always on display on one works ok, the other one experiences all the issues I have read here. Perhaps it’s an issue with a third party app.

I noticed this as well. I just got my phone 14 pro max and I woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and I realized that after looking at my always on display it turns off in about 15 minutes.

Thats not what the "always on display" supposed to do.

I really hope they fix this because always on display is a really good feature and im about two seconds away from switching back to android after being with iphone for 10 years

Apple, please fix this issue! I’ve just purchased a 14 pro and have it run in iOS 16.6. I have seen the lists in this thread but none of the situations apply to my situation. My phone is just lying facing up, no do not disturb or any other mode switched on and the AOD keeps turning off after about 30 seconds. I’m really disappointed because I intended to use the AOD as an alternative bedside clock. Please make sure the AOD is ALWAYS ON.

Timmieturner wrote:

Apple, please fix this issue! I’ve just purchased a 14 pro and have it run in iOS 16.6. I have seen the lists in this thread but none of the situations apply to my situation. My phone is just lying facing up, no do not disturb or any other mode switched on and the AOD keeps turning off after about 30 seconds. I’m really disappointed because I intended to use the AOD as an alternative bedside clock. Please make sure the AOD is ALWAYS ON.

Apple does not read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

With iOS 16.6 my AOD is not staying on AT ALL—not even for a few minutes. I have tried the usual things—force restart; toggling it off, restarting, and toggling it back on.

Today the AOD is working. I think Apple is employing a very imprecise algorithm to determine whether to remain on or turn off. It’s annoying. If I’ve enabled AOD, the display should remain on.

Probably my issue is related to the Sleep Focus setting. I do have this turned on because I don’t want calls or texts coming in (except emergency contacts) at night. However, I do want to be able to look at my phone that is charging on my nightstand and be able to see the time. I can understand why some people would not want this and they should be able to turn off the “always on” display feature, but I want the display on ( at an appropriately dim night setting) when I have specifically set my iPhone 14 pro max to have the display always on. Sleep mode should not automatically disregard this setting.

Zzag wrote:

Probably my issue is related to the Sleep Focus setting. I do have this turned on because I don’t want calls or texts coming in (except emergency contacts) at night. However, I do want to be able to look at my phone that is charging on my nightstand and be able to see the time. I can understand why some people would not want this and they should be able to turn off the “always on” display feature, but I want the display on ( at an appropriately dim night setting) when I have specifically set my iPhone 14 pro max to have the display always on. Sleep mode should not automatically disregard this setting.

That sounds like a reasonable theory. You can let Apple know you'd like them to do something different here:

Product Feedback - Apple

What I do (as I don't have a phone with an always on display) is ask Siri what time it is.

Thanks. I’ll provide the feedback to Apple. Unfortunately, asking Siri for the time would wake up my wife and the dogs. ;-)