StandBy for iOS 17

While I’m only a week or so into using the iOS 17 beta — <a href="https://www.threads.net/@mgsiegler/post/CvvWy6kIZlF" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">I’m getting too old for this shit?</a> — it’s already pretty clear what the standout feature is: <a href="https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2023/06/ios-17-makes-iphone-more-personal-and-intuitive/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">StandBy</a>. This is the new mode where when you have your iPhone in landscape mode whilst charging, it displays a new data presentation style, geared towards far more glanceable information. Things like the time, the date, the weather, etc. It sounds mundane. And it is. But it’s also brilliant. The obvious use case is as a bed-side clock. And it’s good for that. While you might worry about having a screen beaming its backlight in your face all night, Apple has created a smart mode (“Night Mode”) that shifts all the visuals to red. It looks like you’re on a submarine. Or like it’s DEFCON 1. It’s cool — albeit slightly masculine? It’s clearly borrowed from the “Night Mode” on the new Apple Watch Ultra — more on this in a bit — but it’s arguably more useful here. But this bed-side use case also begs the obvious: Apple doesn’t sell a dock that currently easily allows for you to enter this mode. Third-party accessory makers do — <a href="https://www.threads.net/@mgsiegler/post/Cul9BjkuBqt/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">I have this one by Belkin</a>, which is great (though pricey) — but it’s sort of wild that Apple has no way to do this beyond propping your iPhone up at an angle while charging. It’s so overt — and the new functionality is so good — that I have to believe we’ll see a new iPhone charger announced alongside the iPhone 15 in a few weeks. My guess is that it will be a wireless charging “puck” on a stand. Maybe they’ll even sell one like Belkin’s which lets you charge the Apple Watch as well — eat your never-shipped heart out, AirPower. I mean, they have to do this. Again, the third-party docks work well, but Apple can’t just leave this money on the table. It’s not in their nature.¹ <a href="https://500ish.com/standby-for-ios-17-5f44f03d7534">Click Here</a>