Auto brightness, also commonly referred to as adaptive brightness – is a super cool feature in all smartphones lately. The feature aims to sense the amount of available light in the surroundings and adjust your phone’s brightness accordingly to ease the visibility of contents on the phone
For example, if you are out in the sun or in a closed dark room, your eyes need different levels of brightness on it to be able to either see the screen properly or to avoid stress for your eyes.
In the bright sun, the sensor on the top of your iPhone detects ample light and increases the brightness to near maximum. If you are in a dark room, let’s say on your bed at night, all the extra light can strain your eyes and also affect eyesight in prolonged cases, so it decreases the brightness level to the middle or minimum. Why auto brightness is suggested – is because the phone does it by itself, without you having to adjust the settings frequently throughout the day
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Why Auto-Brightness is GOOD?
Auto brightness was designed to save the eyes! Another great advantage of having an adaptive brightness setting is that it is designed for people who cannot change the setting manually throughout the day either due to dirty and greasy hands like a physical worker or a chef- you get the idea. But there are moments when they want to quickly look at the time on their phone or a reminder or simply want to pick up a call. In case auto brightness is off, the person will have to manually adjust, which is time consuming on an iPhone unlike in androids.
You can now read at night or scroll through social media without disturbing other people present in the room automatically!
Auto brightness was also made to cut out the battery wastage caused due to keeping the phone on high brightness all the time. The phone could now change the brightness according to the light around it
Why Auto-Brightness is BAD?
The bad side of the auto brightness feature is that it is not accurate enough yet, although it has gotten better over the years through updates and research. The inaccuracy defeats the purpose of the amazing well thought-out feature.
The problem is that it is not particular to the user, that is, it is not customizable. The feature runs through a general laid out system that matches the surrounding’s light sources. But it is important to note that everyone has different requirements and preferences when it comes to their brightness. The elderly people prefer higher brightness than the younger counterparts
The Operating system companies haven’t taken that into consideration or haven’t achieved it as of yet.
Another major downside of the auto brightness is that it has several complaints of draining your battery. The sensor calculates the surrounding’s light availability regularly throughout the day so it tends to take up a lot of the already short battery life of the iPhone and proves a pain for iPhone uses everywhere
These are the main reason iPhone users are constantly trying to keep their phone’s auto brightness feature switched off.
How to Calibrate your Auto Brightness – THE FIX
As mentioned above, you might be having issues with different requirements of the phone brightness, and surely the accuracy is improving in the recent version updates of the iOS. But a quick fix to this would be to calibrate the brightness level before switching on the auto-brightness (steps to that are given later in the article).
Go to a room (or a place) with minimal light and adjust your required brightness. And then when you switch on the auto brightness, your phone is calibrated to know what your requirements are. This does not always work effectively, but it is worth a try
The brightness bar is present in the control center. Hold it and pull to either side of your convenience
Alternatively, you could switch on the dark mode, use the night shift mode, or just the wallpaper dimming option if that’s what you want to go for instead of changing the brightness
How to turn auto brightness off in an Android?
The solution to the auto and manual brightness problem is very easy in Android phones. Most phones have a scroll option on top of the notifications pull-down bar from where it can be easily adjusted while some have the pull-up options as well. But most likely to be found on the home page of every android device
Fairly easy and doable several times a day. But, that is not the case for iOS
How to turn ON/OFF in an iPhone?
The earlier versions of the iPhone had auto brightness options as well. But they were under wallpapers and brightness options so you might be having issues with your new IOS if you recently updated your version or more likely, your phone. so here are Steps to follow to turn the auto-brightness on or off on your iPhone 14 iOS:
Step 1: After unlocking the phone, find the settings app on your iPhone
Step 2: In the settings, you will find an option called “Accessibility” that you should click on
Step 3: Under the accessibility tab, scroll down to display and text size
Step 4: Display and text size will have the button of auto-brightness. You can toggle it on or off depending on what you are trying to do
In short,
Settings > Accessibility > display & Text size > auto brightness > toggle switch
Endnote:
In an attempt of summarizing everything written above, auto-brightness is either positive or negative for you depending upon how you handle your phone, your ever-changing or rarely changing surroundings, and situations. It is definitely an advanced feature that you should try but if it’s not for you yet, that’s okay too.
Whichever option you are going to choose, the procedure will remain the same, but take care of your eyes- don’t let them strain too much because of the bright lights from the phones and tablets. And we hope the above written article has been helpful in briefing down the pros and cons of the situation and the feature