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iPhone 8/Plus Auto brightness on or off for battery life?
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I leave it on at all times and NEVER worry about my battery.
The best battery savings would be auto off and keep it dim all the time.
If you like to optimally see your screen at all times then auto brightness will be the trade off so it’s only brighter when it needs to be and dims accordingly when it doesn’t.
Everyone’s auto brightness battery life will vary based on the lightning one is mostly in.
If you like to optimally see your screen at all times then auto brightness will be the trade off so it’s only brighter when it needs to be and dims accordingly when it doesn’t.
Everyone’s auto brightness battery life will vary based on the lightning one is mostly in.
With all your posts about battery life maybe you should consider buying the largest portable power bank and leaving your phone plugged in at all times. Then it doesn’t matter what your usage or settings are. Most people just use their phone and charge it when it needs it, not a difficult concept
Let me defend the person posing the question.
a. why do some people respond to questions they deem unnecessary or a waste of time when by responding to the question is in itself the epitome of wasting time?
b. I have noticed this online my many years of posting on many many message boards and it is a pet peeve of mine
c. I dont know about the person asking the question but I paid $1000 for my iPhone X and the idea that most people are getting 8 hours usage a day and I might be getting only 5, would drive me nuts and I would want to know why or a new phone under warranty
d. I am about to start a thread on battery life and cellular reception, and it wont be my first thread about battery life and it wont be my last
e. read Malcom Nance's book
Aside from running it all at essentially low brightness consistently, in a more practical and realistic sense of use, why would off be better in terms of battery than having not adjust as needed on its own?
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In what sense? And in comparison to what (simply having brightness set to lowest setting or something like that)?
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You do realize battery usage is a subjective thing and one persons experience has nothing to do with another’s. Just because one person gets 10 hours versus someone else getting 5 doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the phone. Asking a question is fine but, asking the same question phrased slightly different over and over without taking advice people suggested is ridiculous..
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Auto brightness on simply means the brightness will be turned up when necessary and if you turn auto off and then turn the brightness down and leave it there, you will obviously gain battery life, how much I am not sure.
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Exactly, which is why when I ask these questions I am rather detailed as to my use, in fact the newest thing I realized was probably affecting me differently than others is my cell reception, which is not great and is likely one of the many reasons I am getting less life than someone using their phone similarly to me but getting better life.
I had a 6S plus that I charged several times a day as I was constantly scanning stuff with it which quickly used the battery, the RESULT was within a year the % meter was way off and giving me incorrect information, so I did the drain and recharge calibration which helped but within a few days it would do it again. I assumed it happened because I charged it so often during the day for short periods of time. This was not a battery issue but a IOS issue of not being able to tell how much charge the battery had.
Having that experience makes me now want to charge my phone only once a day, if I can. Maybe that is wrong, maybe I took the wrong conclusion from that experience. But I am not a battery engineer so I dont know.
Yes, if you just constantly have it down sure you'd have some sort of savings, but basically at the cost of actual practical use where there can very well be many instances where you'd have a hard time seeing what's on the screen in that type of scenario. I guess I should have framed the questions a bit better relating them to practical/realistic use vs. essentially a more absolute approach to it.
I keep mine on auto all the time. I am willing to have less battery life as long as it is for a legitimate reason. For instance streaming youtube on cellular takes more of my battery, assume it does for others, and doing it on WiFi takes less I am pretty sure than on cellular.
In context of more practical and realistic use you might actually have somewhat better battery life than you'd otherwise, even based on what Apple recommends: https://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/#iosdevicestips
Thus my newest thread about cellular signal.
I am moving soon and my new home will have similarly crap signal. Oh well, thank goodness for WiFi calling. That link provides in a very succinct manner a ton of information, actually. I would think something like brightness would be obvious as a drain if it was up all the time or whatever but stuff like cell signal may not be as obvious.
I would imagine that if you wanted to use the lease amount of power, it should be turned off.
But I don't know the difference between on and off, I know that personally I've tried having it off but it would always annoy me because I commute a lot, and often times it would have my indoor brightness level and the moment I stepped outside I wouldn't be able to see anything at all.
For me, auto works, and I don't even know if it's draining THAT much battery, if at all.
But I don't know the difference between on and off, I know that personally I've tried having it off but it would always annoy me because I commute a lot, and often times it would have my indoor brightness level and the moment I stepped outside I wouldn't be able to see anything at all.
For me, auto works, and I don't even know if it's draining THAT much battery, if at all.
As in turning autobrightness off and manually setting it to some low settings and leaving it at that all the time?
