El OnePlus 6 it has removed a common feature of high-end phones. Always On Display It has disappeared from the latest OnePlus phone due to excessive battery consumption.
Always On Display: find out everything without just turning on the screen
Functionality Always On Display is a very common nowadays in high-end phones Android, mostly due to the rise of OLED screens. With Always On Display, the screen never turns off, always showing a minimum of relevant information such as the time, notification icons, and so on. Not to be confused with Ambient Display, which is to wake up the screen when receiving a notification only for a few seconds.
And why have they become popular with OLED screens? It is because of how these types of panels work. The summary is as follows: to show the blacks an LCD screen lights up, but an OLED screen turns off the corresponding pixels. This saves energy when using on-screen blacks. Always On Display only shows white on a black background, so battery consumption does not increase exponentially and avoids having to turn on the screen over and over again.
OnePlus eliminates the Always On Display mode of the OnePlus 6 due to excessive battery consumption
Having said all this, we move on to OnePlus. The company was offering the mode Always on Display on the OnePlus 6 right out of the box, but it has removed the ability to activate it with the first update. Why?
"We have an official update from our Tech Team confirming that Always on Display on the OnePlus 6 has been removed due to battery saving issues."
This has been the only justification that the Chinese company has given for eliminating the new function. It should be remembered that the OnePlus 6 has an Optic AMOLED screen that should be perfectly capable of handling this function. The fact that they are having battery problems when using it shows that they have not been able to optimize their implementation and that a function that should help many users is one more small disappointment. At the moment there is no word about whether a future update will recover the mode or if the OnePlus 6 stays that way.
OnePlus 6 features
- Display: 6 inches, AMOLED, Full HD +.
- Main processor: Snapdragon 845.
- Graphics processor: Adreno 630.
- RAM: 6 or 8 GB.
- Internal storage: 128 or 256 GB.
- Rear camera: 16MP + 20MP.
- Front camera: 16 MP.
- Battery: 3.300 mAh.
- Operating system: OxygenOS with Android 8.1 Oreo.
- Price: € 519, 569 or 619.