To turn off a Dynamic Island animation on your iPhone, just swipe left or right on it. There's no way to permanently turn off your iPhone's Dynamic Island animations. One of the iPhone 14 Pro and ...

The Dynamic Island appears whenever your phone is unlocked. Through on-screen animations, the cutout appears to expand and shrink, depending on whatever information it's displaying. It also serves ...

One thing that’s impossible not to notice is how smooth Dynamic Island’s animations are. When you close an app that has Dynamic Island support, it goes straight to it. The cutout becomes ...

I like this effect and how Apple designed all the Dynamic Island animations to make it appear as if the pill smoothly grows and shrinks to fit the current purpose. It's all so well done.

And the latest iOS 16.2 feature concerns the iPhone 14 Pro’s signature feature, the Dynamic Island. Apple plans to change the size and animation of the Dynamic Island in at least one instance.

When you double-click the side button to complete the purchase, you see two Face ID animations: the new Dynamic Island animation at the top and the classic Apple Pay animation at the bottom.

This app now offers really fluid animations between compact state and expanded view. On top of that, you can now reply directly from the Dynamic Island, as you would from a heads-up notification ...