Three steps, and you watch each one happen
- 1
Confirm your iPhone. Pick the model you hold, so the profile fits its screen.
- 2
Let it read the display. It looks at your screen head-on and from the side angle (the view from the seat next to you).
- 3
Your profile goes live. The viewing profile (the set of display rules your phone follows) is built for your model and switches on by itself in public places.
Head-on: every word stays sharp.
What the profile holds
A side-angle dimming curve
The dimming curve (how fast the screen darkens as the angle grows) is set for your model. Whoever sits beside you gets a dark screen while you keep reading.
A direct-view clarity map
The clarity map (where the screen must stay sharp when you face it) keeps text sharp when you look straight at it.
Auto-on in public
On a train, a plane or in an open office, the profile switches on by itself, so you never open settings before you read.
Where you use your phone
That is the seat it was made for: the person squeezed in next to you sees a dark screen, and your messages stay clear to you.
A colleague at the next desk looks at your phone from the same side angle as a train neighbour, so the dimming curve covers them too.
At home you may rarely need it. The profile switches on in public places, so on the sofa it stays out of your way.
The words on this page
- Side angle
- The view of your screen from the seat next to you.
- Viewing profile
- The set of display rules your phone follows, built for your model.
- Dimming curve
- How quickly the screen darkens as someone looks at it from further to the side.
- Clarity map
- Where the screen has to stay sharp when you look straight at it.
One train ride, start to end
You take the window seat on a full morning train and launch your banking app, with a stranger close enough to read every line. You tap Activate my privacy profile, pick your iPhone model and let it read the display. The profile is ready, and the next time the carriage fills up it switches on by itself: your balance stays sharp to you, and the seat beside you sees a dark screen.