- A leak said that the iPhone 17 would get a new dynamic island
- This could have a smaller and narrower design
- However, not all leaks are suitable that the dynamic island will change
The dynamic island of the iPhone 16 is a small practical area that stores information on your applications, such as timer times and scores for your favorite football team, so that you can keep an eye on important information. With the iPhone 17 to a few months, however, there could be significant changes to come on the dynamic island.
We have gleaned this information from the Leaker digital cat station on the Chinese social media site Weibo. There, the poster said that the iPhone 17 series “has a new user interface on the smart island”, according to an automatic translation.
The digital cat station no longer shared details on the dynamic island this time, but they previously declared that it would be the smallest iteration of the iPhone 17 series. This smaller design could also arrive at a foldable iPad and a future iPad Pro, said the flight, suggesting a much wider deployment in future Apple products.
However, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo offered an alternative possibility, indicating in January that the dynamic island “will be largely unchanged in the 2h25 iPhone 17 series”. Who will be correct is the assumption of anyone.
Island life
Since the upgrade of my iPhone 12 Pro – with a solid and static notch at the top of the screen – to an iPhone 16 pro, I have become a big fan of the dynamic island. I love how flexible it is and how it makes the multitasking much easier than on my old phone, all without hindering my experience or adding unnecessary complexity.
Its size does not bother me, because I appreciate its usefulness more than its appearance. But if Apple can reduce it without losing any functionality, it is a winning situation in my mind. It would not be enough to try to go to the iPhone 17 series, but anyone who will live it will probably be satisfied with the result.
The dynamic island was not the only subject of the post of the digital cat station. The leak also suggested that the pro models of the iPhone 17 series will include a “new horizontal design of the matrix” (probably referring to the horizontal camera of the rumor) and a zoom lens “5x high pixel”.
Everything will become clear when the iPhone 17 series will arrive in September, and we will finally have an overview of the new dynamic island (or not). This will solve the question of whether it has been reduced in ever more stimulating proportions or remains exactly as it is currently.
