Dynamic Island is one of the great surprises of the iPhone 14 Pro and one of Apple’s ingenious ways to hide the notch. And although from the early days several developers have worked to bring something similar to Android phones, one of them has managed to make it compatible with other iPhone models.

Name of the app that enabled Dynamic Island on older iPhones Developed by DynamicCow and Matteo Zappia.. zapya Leveraged a bug in earlier versions of iOS 16 codenamed DirtyCow this allowed various applications to change the behavior and appearance of the system without jailbreak.

Once DynamicCow is on the iPhone, it allows users who don’t own the iPhone 14 Pro to appreciate the usefulness of the iPhone 14 Pro for testing apps, as suggested, for example, in a post from 9to5mac.

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While this design fits perfectly on the iPhone 14 Pro, it looks pretty good on other iPhone models. Yes definitely, Getting this experience on other devices is more than just a few clicks in the App Store.. Period requires software download on our computerProceed with a few more steps that we’ll explain right away.

This DynamicCow is compatible from iOS 16 to iOS 16.1., because Apple fixed the bug in iOS and iPadOS 16.2. Moreover Apple ID and password must be entered in third-party software to installthis is not recommended, but for those who are really interested it is the only way to test the app.

How to install Dynamic Island on an old iPhone

1. To upload Subserver on Mac. This is used to get AltStore on iPhone and allows you to upload IPA files.
2. Click the AltServer icon in the top bar, install the mail plugin and activate the plugin in mail preferences.
3. connect iphone to your Mac.
4. Inside AltServer, Choose to install AltStore and select your iPhone.
5. Open AltStore app on iPhone and Sign in with your Apple ID.
6. For DynamicCow on iPhone, go to GitHub and go to Releases. Download the latest version.
7. opens Sub Storeclick the plus icon on the page my apps and select the file DynamicCow.ipa To install Dynamic Cow.
8. Open DynamicCow and select the iPhone 14 Pro model you want the dynamic candidatethen select enable.
9. Immediately Dynamic Island will be running on iPhone.

On some iPhone models, the Dynamic Island is half covered by the existing notch, removing more space from the top of the screen. It’s not perfect, but it’s just the beginning and it’s reasonable to imagine that before long there will be amusing uses of that possibility.