Does the option to leave the locked screen always on on the iPhone 14 Pro result in an increase in Screen Time stats? This is what seems to be the case, given the data provided by this compatibility of time spent in front of his screen.
On these two days, the always-on screen option was activated.
Even when you don’t use your phone, it’s on the table, the fact of having chosen to leave your screen always active – to see the time, the date, the notifications and possibly your wallpaper — appears to be considered active screen time by iOS 16, as if engaged in an activity.
Right here Where the, and among our readers, owners of 14 Pro who have activated this option are surprised to see their Screen Time averages increase significantly. If this is the case, it would then deliver information unrelated to the reality of the use of the telephone.
One of our readers is thus surprised to see screen time consumption at times of the day when he does not interact with his iPhone. These gray bars in the Screen Time report that are attached to no app or category of apps in the detail displayed below.
On iPhones in general, they form an anonymous sum – whose calculation Apple does not explain – in which the activations of the screen are possibly counted when, for example, you receive a notification or when you turn it on briefly to read the time or a widget. And in the case of the 14 Pro they could well also contain the always-on screen.
In the case of my 14 Pro (with iOS 16.3 beta), on a 24-hour test day with the screen always on, Screen Time gave me 6 hours of usage while the sum of the apps identified in its report is approaching more like 4 hours. A differential of 2 hours.
On an iPhone 14 Pro with the always-on screen. To the left of the gray bars in the early afternoon correspond to a slice where the phone was not touched. Ditto for the peak at the end of the day. Rebelote right in the middle of the morning and after lunch where the iPhone remained on the table most of the time.
Over the previous three days – with the screen left on off and a volume of manual activations and notifications received in roughly the same waters – this differential oscillates between 30 minutes and an hour on average. A nice difference. In our reader, his daily screen time went on average from less than 2h to 4h30 or even 5h with the screen always on active.
How this new display option may affect Screen Time results remains speculative at this stage, we’ll see if over the versions of iOS a change takes place. Or if this hypothesis is confirmed and that Apple considers that an always-on screen is essentially screen time, even if we do not act on it.
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