DoNews June 8 news (Liu Wenxuan) iOS 16 was released at WWDC 2022, and one of the biggest changes was a completely redesigned lock screen, which can be used like those Android phones, with different widgets, fonts, live wallpapers, etc. to customize your iPhone lock screen. In addition, 9to5Mac found that the always-on display (AOD) function does exist in the preview version pushed to developers by iOS 16.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman once pointed out that iOS 16 will support this feature, which may be available for the newly launched iPhone 14 Pro/Pro Max this fall.
In iOS 16, three new frameworks have been added, related to the backlight management of the iPhone display, which is a key to enabling the always-on feature, each of which mentions the AOD feature, in theory, you can speculate These features were added in reference to the Apple Watch’s existing AOD capabilities, but that’s not the case here.
All the frameworks found by 9to5Mac are used by different components of iOS, including the lock screen. Also, most notably, the AOD feature is mentioned several times in Springboard – it’s a tool for managing the iPhone’s lock screen (and home screen), and the Apple Watch doesn’t use Springboard.
Beyond that, there are some hidden things in iOS 16 that Apple engineers can use to enable AOD functionality, even on unsupported devices. That means Apple engineers can test AOD’s display capabilities on the iPhone 13 Pro before the feature rolls out to the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max later this year.
