iPhone 11 Do you turn on Auto-Brightness?

[murad_fourth]

Hi everyone.

I actually want to know if you guys turn on auto-brightness or prefer to use your iPhone by turning off it.

I just noticed that Apple warns iPhone users when you decide to turn off auto-brightness:

“Turning off auto-brightness may affect battery life and long-term display performance.”

And the question is simple: Do you turn on or turn off auto-brightness?

You can send your answer by voting in the poll. 😊

 

[Seanm87]

I keep it on. I cant be bothered to manually change it every time. Not sure why anyone would quite frankly.

 

[now i see it]

Where auto brightness is an utter fail is when using an iPhone at night when it's dark while wearing a headlamp.
When the headlamp shines on the ambient light sensor, auto-brightness cranks the brightness all the way up to max- creating a blinding display. And then if you adjust the brightness in control center so it's not blinding and move your head so the headlamp isn't shining on the sensor, the display will automatically dim to minimum.
It's useless under those circumstances.
But normal daylight to indoors viewing. auto-brightness works fine.

iPhones with LCD displays can run full brightness all the time without damage. The iPhones with OLED screens will degrade faster if brightness is set to high all the time.

 

[C DM]

Hi everyone.

I actually want to know if you guys turn on auto-brightness or prefer to use your iPhone by turning off it.

I just noticed that Apple warns iPhone users when you decide to turn off auto-brightness:

“Turning off auto-brightness may affect battery life and long-term display performance.”

View attachment 925411

And the question is simple: Do you turn on or turn off auto-brightness?

You can send your answer by voting in the poll. 😊

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/do-you-use-auto-brightness.2200130/ might be of some help.

 

[murad_fourth]

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/do-you-use-auto-brightness.2200130/ might be of some help.

Thank you for that.

 

[LFC2020]

Always leave it off on every iPhone I've owned, never seems to work properly, either dims the screen to much, or ends up being to bright.

Prefer adjusting the brightness myself. 🌞

 

[Fred Zed]

Always off with all my devices.

 

[jschnee21]

Always leave it off on every iPhone I've owned, never seems to work properly, either dims the screen to much, or ends up being to bright.

Prefer adjusting the brightness myself.

THIS x1000. Apple auto brightness blows and has never worked well for me since it was introduced. My first iPhone was the 3g. 5 models later it still doesn’t work. Too bright in dark areas, too dim in bright areas. much easier to set it manually.

 

[addey]

Always leave it off on every iPhone I've owned, never seems to work properly, either dims the screen to much, or ends up being to bright.

Prefer adjusting the brightness myself. 🌞

Same here. I end up adjusting it manually anyway so I just turn it off.

 

[Tsepz]

I turn it On. I have found Auto Brightness on iPhones to be a lot better versus what I had on Androids, I first realized it when I used it on my XS Max and so since then I have kept it on on my 11 Pro Max as well. On my iPad I keep it off as I like to keep my iPads on Max or close to max brightness.

The Auto Brightness seems to keep the minimum I set it at and when it drops it doesn’t seem to drop too low for me so I am generally happy, it requires a tweak every now and again.

 

[tranceking26]

I have it enabled but sometimes I will manually make it brighter.

 

[zkap]

Can't do without it. It would be a pain to constantly have to adjust screen brightness in control centre.

It can indeed get too dim when in a dark environment, but then you calibrate by pulling up control centre, adjusting the brightness and then turning the screen off. After this the lowest setting shouldn't be so dim. Generally whenever it gets too dim or too bright I adjust it manually as doing it every now and then beats doing it every day.

 

[Nozuka]

I never even turned it off. Works perfectly for my needs, with one exception:
Waking up in the middle of the night and using it in complete darkness. It's often too bright.
(Although recently it seems to have saved my chosen brightness... not sure if coincidence or they secretly improved it)

But then again, setting the brightness always manualy would make this even worse.

 

[trevpimp]

I proudly set my brightness via manual

that’s just a set of skills that I shall have

auto brightness irritates me when it constantly changes

 

[Helmsley]

I have it on.

The only time I manually turn the brightness up is if I'm in bed in the dark. Auto brightness goes too dark for my liking.

 

[Deifie]

iPhones with LCD displays can run full brightness all the time without damage. The iPhones with OLED screens will degrade faster if brightness is set to high all the time.

The LED backlight in LCD displays also degrades with usage, the main difference to OLED where single pixel cann degrade faster than others based on the screen content ist with LCD the whole screen gets darker or color shifted...