{"id":259401,"date":"2026-05-30T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/always-on-display-vs-tap-to-wake-which-is-better-for-your-android-phone\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T05:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:40:07","slug":"always-on-display-vs-tap-to-wake-which-is-better-for-your-android-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/30\/always-on-display-vs-tap-to-wake-which-is-better-for-your-android-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Always-On Display Vs Tap-To-Wake: Which Is Better For Your Android Phone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2180915\/always-on-display-tap-to-wake-which-better\/\">Always-On Display Vs Tap-To-Wake: Which Is Better For Your Android Phone?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2180915\/always-on-display-tap-to-wake-which-better\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2180915\/always-on-display-tap-to-wake-which-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-30 05:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Lukmanazis\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Modern Android phones are packed with features to streamline your experience, one of which is Always-On Display (AOD),\u00a0introduced in 2016. It displays important information like date, time, notifications, music controls, and widgets on the lockscreen, negating the need to pick up the phone or tap the screen. As the name suggests, the display is always on, although not the entire screen. Naturally, this has an impact on your phone&#8217;s battery life, which is why many prefer the Tap-to-Wake functionality. In this mode, the screen is completely off until you tap it once or twice to turn on the display.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Between Always-On Display and Tap-to-Wake, the latter is better for battery life. That&#8217;s because, even if only a few pixels remain lit, as is the case with AMOLED displays, Always-On Display still requires power, which drains the battery faster\u00a0than a completely dark screen. The extent of that drain varies, depending on how Always-On Display is configured, but the battery life almost always takes a hit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you care about battery life, AOD may not be the best choice, even if it&#8217;s enabled by default. This is usually the case with supported iPhone models. As for Android phones, the feature is disabled by default in most cases.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">AOD uses more battery than Tap-to-Wake<\/h2>\n<p>                              &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2180915\/always-on-display-tap-to-wake-which-better\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always-On Display Vs Tap-To-Wake: Which Is Better For Your Android Phone? https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2180915\/always-on-display-tap-to-wake-which-better\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-30&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/always-on-display-vs-tap-to-wake-which-is-better-for-your-android-phone\/l-intro-1779795546.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259403,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259401\/revisions\/259403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}