How to use dynamic island on Android phones: Apple brought exclusive features to its flagship iPhone 14 Pro models this year. This time, iPhone 14 Pro models are coming with the pill-shaped cutout at the top of the screen, which the company calls the Dynamic Island feature. On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, you can check alerts and current activity in progress -- such as music that’s playing, your timer, an AirDrop connection, and directions from Maps -- in the Dynamic Island on the Home Screen or in any app. The Dynamic Island appears whenever your iPhone is unlocked.

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But, the good news is that Android smartphone users can also try out the feature but there is a trick.  A free app on the Google Play Store called dynamicSpot offers Android phone a notch or pill-shaped cutout. After you follow all the required steps, you will have your very own Dynamic Island.  dynamicSpot enables a Dynamic Island popup, making it easier to access recent notifications or phone status changes and indicates new notifications like a notification light,. 

How to use dynamic island on Android phones: GUIDE

First, you need to download and launch the dynamicSpot app on your phone.

- Follow the on-screen instructions, and grant all the permissions that the app needs.

- Under Select apps, you can choose to have any app installed on your phone send notifications via the dynamicSpot

- When you complete the access part, click Done at the bottom of the screen.

- From the home page, select Popup settings > Dimensions. Slide the three sliders until the pill is properly aligned with the notch or pill on your phone.

- Check out the additional settings as well, which allow you to customise things like how the island responds when you tap outside of it and additional bubbles for multitasking.