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Anyone keep brightness at 100%?

wordoflife said:
That's eye-suicide if you ever have to use your phone in a dark environment.
I keep mine slightly below halfway.

If you're used to having it at so bright, then yeah, anything lower will bother. Same vice versa though
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My thoughts exactly. I, too, keep it below 50%. 100% is like staring into the sun...cook your retinas in a flash! :eek:
 
My iPhone 5 puts itself on 100% brightness from time to time and I notice it right away because my skin gets dry and I start to burn. :D

I wish that bug would go away...
 
I keep it at 30% - 40% with auto brightness on. I use my phone waaaaay too much to keep it at 100%. Plus it hurts my eyes at 100%, I feel like I'm staring at the sun, especially when its on a page with a lot of white. The only time it goes to 100% is when it is SUPER BRIGHT outside, but auto brightness does it for me. My cousin keeps hers at 100% and I don't know how she sees...
 
Funny, I think it looks better at 50-65% than 100%. 100 is way too bright IMO, unless there's strong, direct light shining on the screen.
 
I keep mine around 70% with auto brightness on. I can't imagine how much faster the battery would drain at full brightness.. lol.
 
Muscle Master said:
I'm a Visualphile if there's such a thing. I own 2 Calibrated Panasonic VT50 Plasma televisions a 55 and 65 to give you a since of how screen quality means alot to me

So I can't help but keep the phone brightness at 100%, the screen looks junk below full brightness

anyone feel the same
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1. That would be too bright for me, unless there's an urge for me to use the phone under the sun (like navigating using compass/map during class picnic, etc.).

2. Battery will be drained very quickly.

3. Using the phone constantly with such setting on will make it very hot.

4. Even at 50%, it's very bright for me already. To balance between battery drainage and usability, I often set it 1/3 of the max brightness bar...
 
Muscle Master said:
I'm a Visualphile if there's such a thing. I own 2 Calibrated Panasonic VT50 Plasma televisions a 55 and 65 to give you a since of how screen quality means alot to me

So I can't help but keep the phone brightness at 100%, the screen looks junk below full brightness

anyone feel the same
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In the TV world, we call that "Torch mode". I can't see how anyone who appreciates a calibrated plasma TV would like their iPhone at 100% brightness.

I keep mine around 50%, maybe a bit higher...
 
Oh man...i just tried 100%. Its like i have screen burn-in in my eyes. I'm having trouble reading now :eek: I think when my eye recovers, i'm gonna stick to 50% :D
 
50-60% with auto-brightness all the time.

Anyway, auto-brighness in iOS 6 works like a charm. So, when I am in direct sunlight the brightness of the screen increases to about 90% or even more.


Cheers!
 
I wish the brightness setting was more accessible under ios6. I would set it manual if I didn't have to go through settings to adjust it.
 
I have a professionally calibrated Pioneer Elite Plasma, which make me the only true Visualphile here. All other tv's are just for beginners. I set mine at iphone at 75%. :)
 
Yeah, 100% is just too bright. And keeping it below the max brightness helps save batteries.

I keep it between 30-50%. And the screen doesn't look bad at all.
 
charlieroberts said:
But then its eye suicide if you use it at half brightness and have to squint to read it when in full daylight! Its like with my macbook pro. I can feel my eyes doing more work when its 50%. 100% feels much easier to read and watch and everything else
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Well, that's what auto-brightness is for lol. For those which it works that is.. As many say it doesnt.
 
Anywhere from 80-100% during the daytime with auto brightness on,& down to 40-60% at nite cause my eyes get sore from looking at my screen for so long :)
 
charlieroberts said:
lol, then i guess it doesnt work for me! I had never really given it thought, but it is ON and doesnt appear to help AT ALL!
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Lol.. What iDevice do you have? Me and my mom's iPhone 4 auto-brightness never worked even in iOS 5 and 6. When I upgraded to iPhone 5, everything worked so flawlessly.

It may have to do with your device not just the newer iOS 6 algorithms and detection - newer iPhones (5) may have better sensors too.
 
Mine's between 25-50% during the day depending on the brightness of the room. I don't use it much outside so can't say.
One complaint I have with the 5 is that it doesn't go dark enough for when I want to read in bed - 0% is still too bright!
My wife likes to have her iPad 3 at 100% brightness nearly all the time, even inside. Whenever I pick it up I feel like my eyes are gonna burn! Luckily it's a quick shortcut to change the brightness on the iPad.
Another complaint: the fast app switch on the iPhone when swiping left to right has volume slider. Why? I have volume buttons on the side! Why can't it be a brightness slider, like the iPad has!
 
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