Apple has introduced in the iPhone 14 Pro one of the most interesting novelties for its smartphones in recent years. Dynamic Island is the one chosen to not only replace the annoying notch, but also to provide more detailed information to the user about different aspects of the mobile.
Check the status of connected devices, change songs with the music player, answer an incoming call… All this while changing shape depending on the content, but its possibilities are about to expand considerably with the launch of iOS 16.1, the version that ends up bringing all the most important news that the company announced at WWDC.
Dynamic Island improves your iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 16.1
Among the most interesting new features of the iOS 16.1 update of the iPhone operating system are Live Activities for Dynamic Island on your iPhone 14 Pro. In short, they consist of notifications that appear for a limited time on the lock screen and that are updated continuously . For example, when ordering food through an app, you will receive a notice that the order is ready and later another that it is on the way along with the delivery time.
There are also more striking uses, such as the option to see the result of a soccer match in real time. However, this function will not reach Spain at the moment, although others such as timers, training tracking, Uber trips will. Endless options that you can get the most out of your iPhone 14 Pro and its Dynamic Island with these applications:
- Bolt : View the rest time of your training.
- Booby Track : breastfeeding timer control.
- Carrot Weather – Tracking nearby storms.
- Trainer : AR Calisthenics & Hiit – follow the training.
- Coffee Book : Follow the times and steps of coffee making.
- Crouton: Cooking Companion – View timers and recipe steps.
- Dark Noise – Start and stop sounds.
- Fat Burn Tracker – view and manage workouts
- FITIV Pulse Heart Rate Monitor : Track workouts: Follow workouts
- Flighty – Fast Flight Tracker : Track flights: track flights.
- Focus – Time Management : concentration timers.
- Forest: Focus for Productivity – Track your focus stats.
- Grocery – Smart Shopping List : track purchases and cooking times.
- GoodTask – To Do List, Tasks : upcoming tasks and things to do.
- Landscape: Mountaineering – Real-time activity tracking with graphs.
- Liftin’ Workout Tracker – Watch live workout.
- LookUp : English dictionary: access recent words and search and scan functions.
- Lumy – solar event tracking.
- Mango Baby – Newborn Tracker : newborn tracker and timers.
- MD Clock – Clock Widget : view alarms.
- MoneyCoach Budget & Spendings – Track expenses and categories.
- OffScreen – Less Screen Time : view study progress.
- OneWidget – Lock Screen Widget – Adopt pets, display health data and app launchers.
- Paddle Logger for Watersports – Check the status of water activities.
- Passcodes – Password Manager : check two-step authentication codes.
- Pestle: Recipe Organizer – Recipe management and timers.
- Reality Tasks: Kanban & To-Do : task tracking.
- Slopes : Ski & Snowboard: follow real-time statistics of the exercise.
- Soor : live match information,
- Sports Alerts – Set alarms up to 6 hours before the match.
- Structured – Daily Planner : look back time.
- Sticky Timers and Countdowns – Keep track of various timers.
- Time’s Up! – Visual Timer : control and management of timers.
As you can see, most of these features are directly related to the management and control of activities along with timers. So there is not a wide variety of purposes, which is bad news for users who expected great features. At the moment, it only remains to wait to see if its possibilities increase in the future, since perhaps the Dynamic Island of the iPhone 14 Pro leaves something to be desired.