Apple tries to surprise us every now and then with a change in the design of its products that is a small boost for sales. Without a doubt, the presentation of the Dynamic Island in the iPhone 14 Pro was the beginning of the end of the notch as we knew it since its introduction in the iPhone, all models have Dynamic Island. But… what were the alternatives to the dynamic island? Apple has been working on a multitude of ideas which we show below.
Redesign of the notch? A dynamic island? Apple worked on all these concepts
The notch was with us since the iPhone launched The design of the dynamic island was not born from scratch but rather Apple worked with a multitude of variations and the ways to change this notch. In fact, MacRumors sources have leaked all of these concepts and the outlet has developed a series of concepts that show the alternatives to the dynamic island envisioned by Apple a few years ago.
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Apple’s main intention was to introduce a pop-up menu that could disappear on the right side of the screen. Its operation was simple and it could respond to urgent needs of the control center without having to override the rest of the interface when launching the center itself. When this menu was not used, it disappeared. Note, however, that the notch and the context menu have a similar design and when seen together the finish is strange.
This is why a second variant was chosen, eliminate the black notch for a black top band, which give a similar design to some Android currently sold. This way, information such as time and battery can be included above the notch and it appears that it is the frame itself that is backlit. However, this is not the case because it is a screen with black pixels.
Ultimately, Apple opted for Dynamic island or dynamic island, a pill-shaped notch that would allow its interaction with the operating system to be modulated. But to arrive at the current definition, Apple worked with different models that appear in the image at the top of the article. In one of them we can see that they valued a larger, more intrusive dynamic island with greater direct access. We also see another concept that mixed up the context menu shortcuts that they rejected in the first place. And finally, we have the result of the current Dynamic Island arrived on the iPhone 14 Pro:
Images – MacRumors
