The iPhone 14 Pro includes a clever new dynamic island that hides the front-facing TrueDepth camera hardware, and third-party app developers are already experimenting with ways to take advantage of the new iPhone capabilities.


Apple allows third-party developers to create Dynamic Island experiences that may include games. Kriss Smolka, the developer behind apps like WaterMinder and HabitMinder, today unveiled a simple Dynamic Island game concept that’s modeled after Pong.

In the demo, the Hit the Island game uses a paddle on the bottom to send a ball onto the dynamic island with the goal of hitting the island and animating it.

Smolka said that the game “is going to be very nice” but that there are some lag issues to overcome. Whether Apple will allow this type of play with Dynamic Island remains to be seen, but there are undoubtedly other unique implementations that we can expect after the launch of the “iPhone 14 Pro” models this Friday.

Apple designed the dynamic island to morph and change shape to match what is being displayed on the “iPhone” screen, and it is used as the front and center information center. The dynamic island blends into the display and provides at-a-glance information about apps and services used on the “iPhone”.

We’ll be providing an in-depth look at the dynamic island later this week, so stay tuned MacRumors.

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