Iphone 12 AOD and stand by mode

Sorry Samlanham but I may need to revise my opinion that you are a genius. Tried using the phone as a bedside clock but sometime during the night the display went off. Not much use as a bedside clock if the display does not show 24/7. Will have to find an app.

Yeah, I get that. But my point is that, if you want to use the feature without an AOD-capable phone, you can. Possibly just me being pedantic. That's been know to occur.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I understand. But I'm afraid our OP here, thinks Apple should magically update iPhone 12 models to become Always On, so they can have the newest and greatest features iOS 17 offers. We both know that's never going to happen.

Ain't never going to happen!

UmitAyt wrote:

It would be a good feedback to Apple Because releasing standby mode in IOS 17 and saying that it will be part of new features on iphone models supporting IOS 17 is not fair. The bottom line is that Apple’s announcement does not show the reality.

Of course it's fair. Apple said up front that not ALL features will be available on ALL iPhone models. You're expectation that Apple can somehow make phones from a few years ago, do the same things as the newer generation phones do, which have completely different hardware in them is unrealistic.

If you want this feature badly enough, then you'll find a way to buy a newer iPhone model which does have the required hardware to support the features you want.

Not sure if I buy the refresh rate reason. At once every second (1hz), the standby screen would not be able to display a smooth-motion second hand (as it does easily on my iPhone 12). Do we have a solid reference for this?

Frankly, I think this is simply a feature that has been placed on newer phones only.

If I’m wrong, please elaborate. :)

ps: I posted this in another, similar thread, just in case it wasn’t read.

AlexxelA101 wrote:

Are you saying the display is incapable of staying on while on charge? Thats a new concept for me, do the liquid crystals melt or something?

The hardware on the older phones doesn't support the Always On Display feature. For anything more than that, you'd need to ask Apple.

I'm guessing they want it to work as it should work on a phone with AOD? For me, it's not a feature I will use and I do have a phone with AOD. Even if I wake in the middle of the night, my phone is not something I want to look at.

I don't know if it's something I'll use much, either. But, I will probably play with it some. I don't have a clock in my room and, in the middle of the night, I can never remember how to see the time on my Watch which is in Sleep focus.

I guess if someone wants to be able to wake up and see their phone, it's good. I'm just not that someone. It is interesting though. The clock or whatever you want on your screen is shown in red in a darkened room in Standby Mode.

Not sure what you are talking about here?

"They don't have the hardware for it"

Are you saying the display is incapable of staying on while on charge? Thats a new concept for me, do the liquid crystals melt or something?

Or perhaps you are saying that people shouldn't have the option to accept the possibility of screen burn if they choose to. Not to mention that if that was the issue then barely animated pixels could stop that from happening, no? Also there is a front facing camera, perhaps you are going to tell me how that hardware isnt good enough to detect motion?

Whats more realistic, this stuff is just far to complicated for the hardware or, lets arbitrarily keep this feature on newer iPhones only as we are running out of innovative features and need to pretend that an AOD is the only tech that can bring this extremely unremarkable bit of code to life.

Would be very interested to hear your thoughts/apologetics.

I'll have to check it tonight. It's possible I can remember how to make that happen in the middle of the night.

Thanks for confirming, lobsterghost1. Problem solved, thread closed (in my book, at least).

You're welcom.