Yes, I’ve had that issue but all I need to do is tap the brightness bar (i.e., no need to slide it) and it fixes it. I’ve had this issue as well as the other issue in this topic. So far the only fix for mine has been to turn on automatic brightness.
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iPhone 14 Pro Max iPhone 14 Pro Max Screen Brightness Goes to Zero Overnight
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Just curious as I’ve always used it, but what do people have against using automatic brightness?
Same. Auto brightness makes the screen too dark for me. I’m using it now because of this issue, but I don’t like it.
So I think I may have found the actual cause of this…try turning off optimized battery charging. I notified that this was only happening when my phone was on the charger for extended periods of time (overnight) when charging goes into ‘optimized’ mode. It seems like the delayed charging state causes issues with the always on display. So far it’s been a week and the issue is completely remedied.
Just like you guys, overnight charging and brightness goes to 0. It is not a case issue as I had this same problem with Apple Magsafe case as well as ESR case. Sent first 14 Pro back and replacement is doing the SAME thing. Arrrrrrgh!
I don’t think it’s a hardware issue as too many people are having the same problem. It’s more likely a bug in the software maybe as part of iOS 16. Hopefully it’s something Apple can fix as it is quite annoying. I certainly don’t want to be turning AOD off in order to prevent it.
I guess it’s the lesser of two evils, i.e., either turn off optimized battery charging or turn on auto brightness. While I really don’t like auto brightness, I don’t want to turn off the optimized battery charging because turning that off will likely negatively impact battery life. The real answer is Apple needs to fix this. You should let them know about the conflict with optimized battery charging as that could help them with the fix.
Turning of battery optimisation didn’t work for me. I like having the AOD so I’m not prepared to turn it off to prevent this. There really doesn’t seem to be a one confirmed fix for all. Until if and when Apple come up with a fix for this in an update I will live with turning up the brightness in the mornings.
No it’s obviously not a hardware issue now that I see it happening on replacement phone but that was what Apple recommended. This is bigger than we know. Apple needs a software update fix asap.
You mean turning it off ? Either way it didn’t work for me. I certainly don’t want to be turning it off as I find it useful to see any notifications as well as the time without having to turn the phone on completely.
No - I mean going into settings > accessibility > display & text size > auto-brightness and then toggle that to “on”. That has worked for me and for many others on this forum. For me, when I take the phone off the charger, while it may technically be down to zero brightness, the auto-brightness feature then kicks in and automatically turns it up as it should. So, it makes sense that that would make it work. However, I really don’t like auto-brightness and anyway, the phone clearly should not work like this.
Nope. This problem occurs irregardless of auto brightness setting on my 14 Pro. Stays dim until I go into settings and increase Brightness from 0, even with Auto brightness on. Reported it again to Apple this morning, as I hope everyone is. This needs to get fixed with 16.0.4.
I tried that too but then the brightness doesn’t stay consistent and is always changing which I don’t like either. I’m use to the brightness staying the same and the only time I increase it is temporarily when I’m outside in bright sunlight and I can’t see the screen.
I have a work around. In shortcuts app make an automation set the brightness to whatever you want and set a time to action it. Make sure notify when run is selected otherwise it won’t work.
Not ideal but it seems to work.
Not ideal but it seems to work.