Wired
The iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max have turned into a pill design because of the bangs. Apple named it “Smart Island”. The standard version of the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus still has a bangs screen design and does not have a smart island, so the smart island is the iPhone 14 Pro. Series-specific features.
Why can the smart island of the iPhone 14 Pro series “out of the circle”?
The smart island area of the iPhone 14 Pro series brings a new way of interaction, which is integrated with the appearance of the “pill screen” and complements each other.
From the real machine hands-on picture, we can see that the design of “Smart Island” can be combined with various apps, and can well cover up the visual defects brought by the “Pill Screen”.
At present, Smart Island can display more than 30 kinds of information, including call reminders, FaceID authentication, charging and low battery reminders, ringtone/silent mode switching, shortcut commands, flight mode, etc., bringing a very smooth and smooth interaction and visual experience.
When the Smart Island function is activated, most people will focus on the animation effects themselves, while ignoring the physical damage caused by digging holes. Can such a smart island be “out of the circle”?
In addition, Smart Island is a creative design. It is both hardware and software. By integrating the two, it can flexibly transform according to the user’s operation, and pop up various messages such as music, game scores, and FaceTime calls in different ways. The gameplay is very Rich.
For the first time, Apple adopted the hole-digging screen design, and it was able to come up with such a clever idea, which once again proved that Apple is by no means “creative exhaustion”. Of course, some people may say that Apple is not the first in the screen UI design around the lens hole. This is indeed the case. For example, Huawei, Meizu, LG and other brands of mobile phones have also designed animation special effects around digging holes before, but they are more just for display, without considering the interactive gameplay. For example, their unlocking animations, notification breathing lights, and ring-shaped power indicators are also innovative, but compared with Apple’s Smart Island, they are actually a lot worse.
What do you think of the smart island of the iPhone 14 series?