Apollo update transforms the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island into a home for ‘Pixel Pals’

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The

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may have only arrived yesterday but developers are already dreaming up fun and interesting use cases for Apple’s new

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. Take

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creator

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, for instance. On Friday, he updated his Reddit client to implement support for “Pixel Pals.” The feature adds a

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critter that does cute things on top of your phone’s Dynamic Island while you have Apollo open. You can even choose between multiple creatures, including a cat, dog, hedgehog, fox or axolotl.

Okay y'all, I think I found the best idea for the Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro. I added a cat that lives up there like a tamagotchi and just hangs out and does cute stuff as you browse Reddit in my app (Apollo).

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— Christian Selig (@ChristianSelig)

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If you don’t have an iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max, don’t worry. You can also add the creatures to your phone as lock screen widgets – provided you have

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installed. On the subject of iPhone widgets, Google teased one that will function as a shortcut to

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.


Selig isn’t the only person doing something creative with the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island. In a tweet spotted by

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, WaterMinder creator Kriss Smolka showed off Hit the Island, a game that uses the UI element for a Pong-style game. You can download it from the

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. I can only speak for myself, but these apps make me a bit jealous I'm still rocking an iPhone 12.

Who has an iPhone 14 Pro right now? Need to test this on device asap!

️ Hit The Island - our game concept for iPhone 14 Pro, still laggy but it’s turning out nice

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— Kriss Smolka (@ksmolka)

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