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 ...

Android has improved a lot over the years but one of the earlier additions to the OS was auto-brightness. Dubbed “Adaptive Brightness” in modern iterations of Android, that does exactly what its name ...

So, you've been binge-watching your favorite TV series on your iPhone all afternoon when out of nowhere, your screen starts dimming on you. No biggie — you probably just have auto-brightness on.

In this guide we’ll show you how to quickly enable, or disable, auto brightness on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. We’ll also show you how to manually adjust your screen’s brightness if you turn auto ...

Auto-brightness is intended to make it easier to see your iPhone screen, no matter where you are. This might mean brightening the screen when the sensors indicate you're in a low light setting, to ...

Pixel 9 users are complaining that auto-brightness on their Pixel 9 series can be erratic. This can be because of data migration of the adaptive brightness model from your older phone to your new ...

“This setting automatically adjusts your screen brightness based on the ambient light,” Lovre says. “While this can be convenient, it can also lead to unnecessary battery drain. If you find that ...

It seems like display brightness has become the new battleground in the smartphone arena. We’ve seen plenty of top phones touting ever-increasing peak brightness figures, even though this figure isn’t ...

Most high-end smartphones have an ambient light sensor that can be used to determine how bright your phone’s display should be. If you’re in a dimly lit environment, the screen doesn’t need to be very ...

I'm tired of standing in dark closets flipping lights on and off to figure out how this works. I'm using an iPad 3, with no case obscuring the light sensor, iOS 6, with auto-brightness turned on. From ...

One of the best parts of using an iPhone is getting to use its display – Apple’s mobile screens are renowned for their sharpness, color accuracy, and, on ProMotion-enabled devices, smooth refresh ...

We continue our coverage of the recent Mac OS X 10.3.8 Update with more information about automatic PowerBook screen brightness and Safari "world leaks." (Note that we have moved coverage of "pop-up" ...