hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and when people ask me about the iPhone 14 pro and 14
pro Max the first thing they ask me is is the dynamic Island worth it and so since we've been
living with it for about the past five months or so I thought we'd go over some apps that make the
best use of it so whether or not you have an iPhone 14 pro or 14 pro Max you can check out
the apps or maybe you're considering upgrading and still trying to decide if it's worth the upgrade
now we have a lot of nice built-in notifications that utilize the dynamic Island such as charging
so if we plug in a magsafe charger you'll see that it immediately shows us charging and then sort
of shrinks away if we press on it it doesn't do anything but we do often get notifications there
depending on the apps we're using there's some nice uses of it and there's really some apps that
don't take advantage of it yet now the first thing that was updated today is Uber so Uber
is actually something that Apple showed off with the introduction of iOS 16 or with the iPhone 14
pro Max and showing that it could actually do some different activities so they showed live
activities with the introduction of iOS 16 but it also can use the dynamic Island to show you
when your ride is actually arriving and more so this is something they updated the app today and
you can see what it would look like here for live activities and similarly in the dynamic
Island that's something that should be rolling out to over 1200 cities starting today so that's
something that was in testing if you want to try it out that's the first thing if you're looking
for a ride sharing app the next thing that we see a lot of apps like this one of them is pixel Pals
so pixel Pals puts a little pal at the top of the dynamic Island and if we swipe home you'll
see it's not activated however if I turn it on to always we can have it run sleep or just
chill at the top so if we swipe home we've got a little pixel pal in the top in the dynamic Island
that sits around there if we press and hold we can play we can feed and you'll see here
just give it a little ball there it shows up on the on the dynamic Island and you can see
it there now once you swipe out of this of course it goes into the dynamic Island and sort of just
sits there however if you want to use that it's available and it was first introduced with the
Apollo app which is a Reddit app so if you go into that you can have a little pal at the top there
there are a lot of apps that try and duplicate this this was the first one I was aware of but you
have a bunch of different preferences of course there's subscription models with different pales
as well so it's a nice little playful thing you can have in the dynamic Island if you want to but
you will have to turn it off when you don't want it to show up there on the top now the next thing
that's been super helpful for me especially when I travel is flighty now this is something that's
a subscription and they'll let you see what it does but it allows you to track your flights and
show you that in the dynamic Island I recently used this when I was traveling to CES back in
January and we'll just view a random flight so we can see what it's like but if you're flying
someplace regularly this this is super helpful so you'll see this is just a random flight and if
we swipe home it goes into the dynamic Island it shows the gate number in the upper right when it's
departing and then you can go right back through it so you can go right into your information and
then when it's in flight you can actually see the flight progressing here so if someone is maybe a
family member is wanting to know where you are they can actually see it in real time in the
dynamic Island and within a live activity on your home screen so you'll see it there so you've got
your gate and everything so this is one of the best uses of the dynamic Island in live
activities and is highly recommended I subscribe to it when I need it and then I unsubscribe when
I don't but if you travel regularly to me this is now a must have and definitely worth checking out
now the next one is a game and this is actually something that's been out a while but we'll go
into it and it allows you to use this as sort of a game of pong but using the island as one
of the things you hit the ball off of so if we go into it you'll see here if we press play
and now we've got the little paddle at the bottom we'll wait for it to bounce back and
forth and there's really great haptic feedback in this and this is actually a free game and all of
these games will be linked where all of these apps rather will be linked in the description below so
as it bounces that off the top of the dynamic Island you can actually feel this every time it
bounces so it's just a simple game if you want to try it out and it's worth trying since it's
free now the next app is a weather app and if you don't like Apple's regular weather app and
since they bought a different app and got rid of it carrot weather is actually something that uses
the dynamic Island based on the overall weather in your area it will actually show up when there's a
rainstorm for example So currently there isn't one in my area but it gives you all of your regular
information you will have to subscribe to get some of these features but you can actually take a look
at them see what they look like and if we go into the App Store you'll see in their pictures from
the app you'll see not only do we get things such as live activities we also have Dynamic
Island weather here as well so it's going to rain soon it will let you know and just pop into the
dynamic island of course it will be running in the background you will need that for some of
those weather alerts to work but that's new for iOS 16.1 and later so it's a great weather app
it is a little bit expensive at twenty dollars per year but if you really like looking at the weather
getting alerts it's one of the best weather apps out there if not the best currently available
now the next one is for those of you that like wallpaper so maybe you want to make clever use
of the wallpaper using the dynamic Island if we go into this this is a free app I'll link in the
description you can see there's a little space man hanging off the dynamic Island the next one
of course we have another one with a person climbing a rope up to the dynamic island or
maybe sliding down and then we have another one with a monkey using its tail around the dynamic
Island and I think you get the idea but again I'll link this in the description if you want to check
it out there's a lot of clever uses of apps that use the dynamic Island especially for wallpaper
now the next one has to do with sports now I've shown this one off before when it comes to live
activities but it also has great integration with the dynamic Island so whether you want to know
about F1 NASCAR boxing all the way to MLB or NFL in real time based off of games that are going on
it will actually let you know not only as a live activity but also in the dynamic Island so if we
go over to the App Store you can see here those are the live activities but also in the dynamic
Island it's based off of what's going on in real time so the sport has to be taking place right now
and then it will update you in the dynamic island with those sports scores so that's something that
if you track a lot of different sports may be very helpful to you so be sure to check it out
and I know a lot of people really enjoy this app now for those of you that want multiple timers
at once there's an app called sticky timers go into sticky timers and you'll see I've created
two different timers we have five minutes seven minutes and maybe we'll create one for one hour
and we'll start the timer so let's start the others just by tapping on them swipe home and
now they're in the dynamic Island press and hold and you can see all of your timers in real time so
this is something that may be very useful for some of you if you want to keep timers running however
you can pause any one of them press and hold and stop all of them it's very simple but makes a good
use of the dynamic Island and what you'll see is with all the different apps I've shown most people
that make apps are doing similar apps so pixel Pals or hit the island or maybe something such as
wallpaper you're going to see a lot of repeated apps in the app store if you search for dynamic
Island so if you go into search you'll see here you're going to see a lot that do similar things
so I was showing you sort of the original or at least that I was aware of as the original and it
gives you the similar sort of setup so if you don't like one app there's lots to try however
there should be more integration with this in the future for example Google Maps is going to
be updating their Maps very soon with integration into the dynamic Island so that's something we
haven't seen yet if you use Google Maps regularly when you're getting directions somewhere it should
pop into the dynamic Island so we're going to see more and more apps use this but it seems as though
they've been very slow to implement and so if you're wondering if you should update just because
of the dynamic Island from an iPhone 13 Pro or 13 Pro Max well those are the functions that you get
with that like I showed before with the charging you have some nice notifications there if you're
recording your screen you get a nice notification there so if we turn on screen recording it just
is a nice place for notifications but to me it's not something that's worth running out and buying
a phone over most people I show think it's neat for a few minutes and then say well I don't know
that that's worth over a thousand dollars worth of upgrading so you'll see there if we stop it it
stops also we have a nice notification when we airdrop something to our phone so if I airdrop
the thing I just screen recorded we'll drop it into the iPhone you'll see it pop onto the iPhone
and then bring us to what we actually just sent to it so it is really nice that it's there but
it's not something I would run out personally and go buy an iPhone for it's really great and
I can't wait to see what people use it for in the future it's very helpful for notifications
but again it's just an area for notifications at this point so maybe we will see some changes with
iOS 17 that integrate this a little bit better and maybe more apps will use it whether it be
carrot weather or maybe Apple's own weather app and much more if you have any other apps you'd
suggest to use with the dynamic Island I'd love to hear from you in the comments below and of
course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper I'll link it in the description like
I normally do if you haven't subscribed already though please subscribe and if you enjoyed the
video please give it a like as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time