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Turning off auto brightness

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I have the latest public beta of ios 11 and I hate auto brightness. Apparently in the latest update the removed the option from the brightness section.
 
1. If you are a beta user and you don't like something, give feedback to Apple. That's the point of public betas.
2. The setting is moved inside accessibility.
3. Auto brightness on iOS is quite reliable (compared to Android).
 
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pika2000 said:
1. If you are a beta user and you don't like something, give feedback to Apple. That's the point of public betas.
2. The setting is moved inside accessibility.
3. Auto brightness on iOS is quite reliable (compared to Android).
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I've done that. Figured I'll just ask if they really did remove it though

As far as auto brightness goes I just hate it on ios Android or anything.


Stupid they had auto brightness in so much.
 
I prefer to set my own brightness levels and not what the device thinks it should be at. Would be pretty poor not to have full control over it.
 
akash.nu said:
What's the problem with auto brightness?
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The problem with auto brightness is that it will never be perfect. Let's say you're in your bed at night and want the brightness to the absolute minimum. Okay you set it like this numerous times and it seems to learn it. Except I've done this, swiped up control center and seen that the slider was up about 5% on numerous occasions. It simply can't do it perfectly.

The problem with Apple engineers is that they're too god damn stupid to think of the simplest solutions. See, Apple engineers understandably limit the brightness level that the device can be set to manually. The iPhone 7 has a 25% brighter display than the iPhone 6s, BUT you can only get that 25% IF you are set to auto-brightness. Now, it's completely understandable that a user would be unable to manually set the brightness that high because it would severely impact battery life. This means though, that all of the millions of users who don't use auto-brightness will never benefit from the 25% higher the display can go.

I of course thought of the solution to this problem which Apple engineers were too unequivocally incompetent to think of, and that is simply to allow manual brightness to continue to hold its same capped brightness level, BUT when a user sets the manual brightness to 100%, then the ambient light sensor automatically turns on and begins to await the possibility that it will need to adjust the brightness beyond 100%. It will automatically adjust beyond 100% if necessary, and it will automatically adjust back to 100% if the ambient light drops. This immediately gives millions of users access to the additional brightness. See, when a user who has manual brightness set, goes outside in direct sunlight, that ambient light sensor should be automatically adjusting the brightness.

I wish I could tell the engineers in charge things, because they clearly need help since they can't solve simple problems like this.

P.S. It's my guess that iOS 11 hiding auto-brightness adjustment means that the new iPhones may have even far brighter displays which of course will only work with auto brightness on, hence their hiding it. Too bad they're too inept to think of what I did in less than 5min when I learned that the iPhone 7 brightness cannot be reached manually.
 
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Infiniverse48 said:
The problem with auto brightness is that it will never be perfect. Let's say you're in your bed at night and want the brightness to the absolute minimum. Okay you set it like this numerous times and it seems to learn it. Except I've done this, swiped up control center and seen that the slider was up about 5% on numerous occasions. It simply can't do it perfectly.

The problem with Apple engineers is that they're too god damn stupid to think of the simplest solutions. See, Apple engineers understandably limit the brightness level that the device can be set to manually. The iPhone 7 has a 25% brighter display than the iPhone 6s, BUT you can only get that 25% IF you are set to auto-brightness. Now, it's completely understandable that a user would be unable to manually set the brightness that high because it would severely impact battery life. This means though, that all of the millions of users who don't use auto-brightness will never benefit from the 25% higher the display can go.

I of course thought of the solution to this problem which Apple engineers were too unequivocally incompetent to think of, and that is simply to allow manual brightness to continue to hold its same capped brightness level, BUT when a user sets the manual brightness to 100%, then the ambient light sensor automatically turns on and begins to await the possibility that it will need to adjust the brightness beyond 100%. It will automatically adjust beyond 100% if necessary, and it will automatically adjust back to 100% if the ambient light drops. This immediately gives millions of users access to the additional brightness. See, when a user who has manual brightness set, goes outside in direct sunlight, that ambient light sensor should be automatically adjusting the brightness.

I wish I could tell the engineers in charge things, because they clearly need help since they can't solve simple problems like this.

P.S. It's my guess that iOS 11 hiding auto-brightness adjustment means that the new iPhones may have even far brighter displays which of course will only work with auto brightness on, hence their hiding it. Too bad they're too inept to think of what I did in less than 5min when I learned that the iPhone 7 brightness cannot be reached manually.
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Wow, I didn't think someone could have such strong opinions about auto brightness.
 
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