If you’re an iPhone user, you’re probably aware that your phone’s display brightness automatically adjusts depending on the amount of light your phone senses in your environment. While this can be a pretty useful feature that helps combat eyestrain and makes your screen a bit easier easier to see, auto-brightness is not always as helpful as it could be.
The problem can be that your display automatically dims down even when you’re out in the sun. If you’re partially in the shade, your phone might get tricked into automatically dimming your screen, even if it doesn’t need to. This can make it difficult to see what’s on your screen. If you manually increase the brightness, it’ll just go back down again because of auto-brightness. Fixing this issue isn’t always as easy as toggling off the necessary settings — but that’s a good place to start.
We’ll show you two settings you need to disable to help prevent your iPhone from automatically dimming. Be advised, your iPhone might still auto-adjust its brightness even when those two settings are disabled.
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First, disable auto-brightness
Yes, this may seem a bit obvious, but the first thing you want to do is to make sure that you have automatic brightness disabled in your settings. The feature is pretty self-explanatory — it automatically adjusts your brightness depending on the light in your environment. If you want to prevent your display from always trying to adjust, you must disable this feature.
In the Settings application, go to Accessibility > Display & Text Size and toggle off Auto-Brightness at the bottom of the page. You would think that this setting would exist in Display & Brightness, so it’s not uncommon that auto-brightness would be enabled without you knowing since it’s tucked away in Accessibility.
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