if i always have my brightness in the middle. Is it better to have auto brightness on or off? To save battery
Auto brightness can help/worsen your battery.
Think about it this way:
In bright light, it'll be dimmer, which saves battery life.
In low light, it'll be brighter, which drains battery life.
If you're that concerned about the brightness draining your battery life, just set it to a low brightness all the time, and turn up the brightness whenever you need it.
I see what your saying, but isn't it the other way around? Gets brighter in bright environments and dims in dark environments? I find that it dims too much in the dark and I turn it up a bit.
Really? I dunno, when it's cloudy outside or been in my pocket and I take it out, my iPhone brightens up to compensate. When it's nice and sunny out, I don't notice it getting any brighter.
Maybe that's just me...
yeah you do have it backwards
think about it. When its dark, you don't need very much light to see something since everything around it is dark, but when something is drowned out by a bright light, you need a super bright back light source to compensate
Auto brightness can help/worsen your battery.
I think you're wrong.
From what I can tell, putting auto on lets it adjust the light up to the level you've set. It can dim it lower, but it can't raise it brighter then you've set.
Thus, it can either help (if it dims) or not help (if it doesn't dim) but it can not hurt battery life since it can't go above the point you've set.
Has anyone seen otherwise? I just played with it for a minute and couldn't get auto-brightness to ever make it brighter than my current setting.
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Has anyone seen otherwise? I just played with it for a minute and couldn't get auto-brightness to ever make it brighter than my current setting.