Android: We all know that screen brightness has a huge effect on your phone's battery life, but Android's built in auto-brightness setting isn't always accurate, and doesn't offer anything in the way ...

Not every setting on your iPhone is helpful all the time. Auto-brightness is intended to make it easier to see your screen, even if the light around you shifts. Sensors adjust the brightness reading ...

Samsung's Lock Star 8.5 2026 update for One UI 8.5 adds lock screen customization with AOD brightness control, widget ...

Your phone display’s brightness consumes up to half of its power. And chances are it’s being horribly mismanaged, thanks to bad engineering and a backwards user interface. Here, Dr. Raymond Soneira of ...

Ambient light sensors enable automatic brightness control depending on the lighting environment. When used to control display brightness or the illumination level of solid state lighting, ambient ...

Many of us don’t like the iPhone automatically changing the screen brightness while we are using it. If you fit into this camp, you’ve probably turned off iPhone auto brightness settings many times ...

I regularly try out new smartphones. Without fail, one of the first settings I switch off is auto-brightness. One of the last times I was driven to it, I was sitting on an airplane trying to read on ...

We’ve come a long way in adjusting the brightness setting on our iPhones to strike a balance between legibility (especially in sunlight) and battery life. Modern iPhones and iPads have bright enough ...