Help me understand auto brightness technology on an iPhone.

[KGB7]

I know there is light sensor that controls automatic brightness on almost every smartphone on the market. What I don't understand, how an iPhone does it better than its competitors.

I'm not here to start an argument, I just want to know why and how it works so well for my self.

I was a Samsung Galaxy owner since S2 till S7 Active. And auto brightness has always been in my experience,... frustrating.


I currently own my first iPhone, it's a 6S Plus. What I found interesting, is that full brightness on a cloudy day , full brightness on sunny day, full brightness in the dark are different. The full brightness is sudle and easy on the eyes.

Let me explain.
With a Galaxy phone, when it goes full brightness, i know it's on full bright, because my eyes will squint or I will look away. It's so bright that I can use the screen as a flashlight.
With iPhone, the full brightness is much softer and more comfortable on my eyes in any situation or light condition, even in a dark room.
On cloudy day, iPhone screen looks dim and soft, on sunny day the screen clear and bright but not over bearing bright. Both times, I have manually checked the screen brightness and it was auto set to full brightness. Yet in every situation it didn't look like it was on full brightness.

My 5th gen iPad, when i turn it up full bright in the dark room, it's freaking bright! While iPhone is bright but it's not over bearing bright, it's clear bright.


Makes sense?

 

[davidg4781]

I'm on a 6 regular, so this may be different, but this, along with other iPhones in the past, all were the same brightness level no matter where I was with regards to where the slider position is. Now there's Night Shift and True Tone which may play into what you're seeing.

Now, on to why Apple does it better. They care about the user experience. They still have a lot of issues, IMO, but that's something they spent time on perfecting so they can say hey, put it on auto, we'll save you battery life AND you'll have a better experience.

It also remembers where you leave it at certain levels. For example, on a new device, it might not go all the way down in a dark room, but I want it all the way down. I move it and going forward it keeps it that low. When I was messing around with an Android device a few years back it didn't do this.

Hope that answers your question. Maybe someone else has other answers.