The iPhone's Dynamic Island is a fun, fast way to see system alerts, apps running in the background and track ride shares and food delivery.

Apple announced the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island as a vibrant new interface for your phone. One year later, it’s not living up to that promise — but that’s also okay.

The Dynamic Island is most useful with Apple’s own apps. While there is support for third-party developers to utilize the Dynamic Island, there haven’t been a ton of apps that make use of it ...

The Dynamic Island can display notifications for Apple Pay transactions, low battery warnings, AirDrop transfers, and much ...

Something I thought we’d see at the WWDC 2023 keynote is more attention given to the Dynamic Island. Apple introduced the new design element with the iPhone 14 Pro in September, and iOS 17 will ...

The Dynamic Island is the area on the iPhone 14 Pro that houses the front-facing camera and the Face ID sensor. To make use of dead space, Apple implemented a software trick to give that space ...

Rumors suggest Apple will expand the Dynamic Island to all iPhone 15 models next year. All four iPhone 14 models can be ordered starting September 9 and launch September 16.

The Dynamic Island can perform a number of different functions and showcase a lot of different information. It can highlight when FaceID is being used or when AirPods get connected to the iPhone.

But as it stands in September 2022, Dynamic Island isn’t very useful for me. And even when it is in use, it’s like a persistent notification telling me that I’m playing music in the background.

One thing Dynamic Island seems to do is to utilize the screen real estate to the maximum. Extending the top bar’s ability as more than a show of icons is not entirely a new concept.

Apple’s Dynamic Island demos during the iPhone 14 event were dazzling. Cute little icons pop up, and tapping them brought up relevant and useful controls.