UPDATE 9/12/23: This is one of the iPhone 15 rumors that panned out. All the new iPhones feature the Dynamic Island interface. But here are seven iPhone rumors that were dead wrong, and our hands on with the iPhone 15.
Original Story:Folks are still unboxing their iPhone 14 smartphones, and already the rumor mill is churning out predictions for Apple's next handset.
Display industry analyst Ross Young on Sunday tweeted that Dynamic Island—the notch successor currently available only on iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max—will roll out to all iPhone 15 models, not just the Pro variants.
The feature, as described by Apple, is "integrated throughout iOS 16...to seamlessly show what you need, when you need it." Depending on what apps you're running in the background, the pill-shaped Island shape-shifts to highlight incoming calls, countdown timers, audio controls, and more. With the upcoming arrival of iOS 16.1, meanwhile, Dynamic Island will also provide at-a-glance information via Apple's Live Activities API.
If Young's prediction is correct, the Dynamic Island would become standard across all new iPhones starting next year, replacing the much-maligned cutout Apple introduced with the iPhone X in 2017—and possibly enticing more people to make the leap to an iPhone 15 base model (rather than the meager hop between more recent versions).
Don't hold your breath, though, for other iPhone 14 Pro traits like an always-on display and smooth-scrolling ProMotion tech in upcoming base handsets. Apple's supply chain "can't support it" yet, according to Young, who suggested that 2024—and the iPhone 16—is "a better bet."
Other smartphone manufacturers have taken a different approach to the Apple's TrueDepth camera array (i.e. "the notch)—which houses the top speaker, camera, and Face ID technology—opting instead for a "hole-punch" approach, creating a small, circular cutout in the top center or side of the display.