I REALLY dislike auto brightness, it annoys me so much. I keep my brightness right around 35-40%. Any lower is just too dim for me. If I wasn't always trying to stretch battery life, Id keep it prob around 55-60%. I prefer a brighter screen.
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Who else keeps their brightness low as possible?
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You only live one (YOLO), and you buy iPhone to enjoy your life. Why you need battery life longer than other people? I just set auto brightness and use Naked iphone
I am also using auto brightness, but have customized it for low light situations. Auto brightness tends to make the screen too dark and I don't like that, since I am very often in low light rooms. Auto brightness can learn your preferred setting for a specific environment, so I adjusted the brightness for low light rooms, and auto brightness respects this setting. I believe that for most of the times, about 30% brightness is more than enough. Only under direct sunlight the screen should be brighter.
Mine is almost all the way down all the time. Sensitive to light. I have no idea how anyone stands it maxed out.
I can go maybe 30-40%. That's it.
I keep brightness at about 20% to 25% when at home on both my iPad air and 6 Plus. When I'm outside I keep brightness as needed on 6 plus never on auto brightness as I find it too high and then drains battery.
Good grief! I crank mine up, use auto brightness and put on my sunglasses!! Battery lasts forever anyway on my 6+.
Better then looking at a dark screen all day...thats whats auto for works pretty well unless you have some rare diesease that prevents you from looking at light. Seems like you spend alot of time figuring out how to get best possible battery life then enjoying the phone for what it is.
Phaaa, I just keep mine OVER 9000!
Which is when autobrightness kicks in outside. Typically when I'm inside, it's around 20%. I hate it when I have to help someone with their iPhone/iPad/computer at night and the brightness is at 100%. Usually I ask them how they can look at a monitor at night with it at full brightness, and they say that it's too dim any lower than that.
To each his own (burnt out eyes)
Which is when autobrightness kicks in outside. Typically when I'm inside, it's around 20%. I hate it when I have to help someone with their iPhone/iPad/computer at night and the brightness is at 100%. Usually I ask them how they can look at a monitor at night with it at full brightness, and they say that it's too dim any lower than that.
To each his own (burnt out eyes)
Who else keeps their brightness low as possible?
Keeping the screen bright in a dark ambient light condition can and will cause eye strain and head aches
Keeping the screen bright in a dark ambient light condition can and will cause eye strain and head aches
I'm not talking about that. I was referring to people who keep their screens really dim or nearly black in normal daylight.
I have had an iPhone every year since the original. Brightness 100%, all the time. Same with my iMacs. No eye strain and no headaches.
Ok, i guess im the only one then. BTW, how is the battery life on your phone when you keep at 100% brightness all the time? Do you keep at that level at night in bed too?
I let ios control it. Rarely I have to turn it down (in a dark room) but most usually not. I don't really have battery complaints with my plus. I've notbyet had a day where I was either scrambling for a charger or having to dial down my usage habits. I still make it a point to plug it in when convenient.
Should you ever decide you want longer battery life turning off Auto brightness will make quite a difference.
My eyes are fairly sensitive to bright light so I run my phone and laptop at the lowest possible setting unless in an extremely bright situation like outside in the sun. Meanwhile, my girlfriend has vision problems which force her to keep her screens maxed out on brightness. If I pick hers up to do something, I am momentarily blinded by the bright light.
I have a 5 and she has a 5S, and she gets slightly worse battery life than me but I am pretty sure that is due more to background apps and services rather than screen brightness.
I have a 5 and she has a 5S, and she gets slightly worse battery life than me but I am pretty sure that is due more to background apps and services rather than screen brightness.