After Apple showed off its iPhone 14 Pro lineup with the “Dynamic Island” design at its fall event in the early morning hours of September 8, Parker Ortolani also had the whim to apply the “Dynamic Island” concept to the iPad Pro. The concept of “Dynamic Island” was applied to the iPad Pro, which led to a lot of discussion on Twitter. It is said that the “Dynamic Island” is a software and hardware matching feature created by Apple to bridge the pill-shaped screen opening of the iPhone 14 Pro smartphone.
In fact, when Apple introduced the iPhone 12 / 13-like bangs notch to the Apple Silicon MacBook notebook line, Apple had already thought about how to integrate it more deeply with the top bar UI.
Compared to the perforated or under-screen hidden solutions, the slotted / pill-shaped design of the bangs is a “simple and brutal” way of stuffing in a bunch of components such as sensors.
Even so, through deep optimization of hardware and software, we can see a conceptual “island” UI design that gets along better with the TrueDepth system / iPad top front camera.
Similar to iPhone 14 Pro, the concept art highlights the presence of Dynamic Island and uses the pill-shaped cutout (and nearby screen display area) to provide relevant information to iPad users.
For example, Dynamic Island on iPad can be used to display relevant controls in the Safari browser — such as translation, reading mode, and the current tab.
Other examples include the multitasking menu, but given the location of the pill-shaped cutout, this concept also means that the iPad will only be able to use the Dynamic Island UI interaction better in landscape mode.
As to when Apple intends to extend Dynamic Island to other devices, it is assumed that it will take several years of development and refinement.
Finally, the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro is also seen by many as the most interesting design Apple has introduced in years, compared to the relatively uninteresting so-called hardware “upgrades”.
