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Why Does My iPhone Keep Dimming?

Writer Emily Cortez

Your iPhone display is constantly dimming, and you’re not sure what’s causing it. If you try turning the brightness of your screen up it seems that your iPhone will dim once more. In this post, I’ll describe why your iPhone continues to dim and explain how you can completely get rid of the issue.

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Fix The Dimming Problem

The majority of the time, your iPhone is constantly dimming due to Auto-Brightness being turned on. Auto-Brightness is a function that automatically alters the brightness of your iPhone screen based on the lighting conditions surrounding you.

In the evening, when it’s dark, the Auto-Brightness feature will make your iPhone display darker so that your eyes don’t become blinded by what you’re gazing at on your screen. If you’re at the shore on a sunny, sunny day, Auto-Brightness will typically increase the brightness of the iPhone display to appear as vibrant as it can be so that you’re able to be able to see what’s happening on the screen!

It is necessary to turn off Auto-Brightness in case your iPhone is constantly dimming, and you’d like it to stop. Go to the Settings and then tap Accessibility> Display and the Text Size. After that, switch off the switch in the middle of the Auto-Brightness.

Apple mentions that turning off Auto-Brightness may impact the battery life of your iPhone. In essence, if you keep your iPhone’s brightness at its maximum throughout the day, it will use up the battery more quickly than if you set your iPhone to a minimum brightness throughout the day.

Another reason it appears that your iPhone appears to be dimming is that Night Shift has been turned on. It is a feature that can be turned on at night. The shift is a function that can make your iPhone display more comfortable and make it easier to sleep at night after using your iPhone.

Navigate to Settings> Display and Brightness and then tap night shift.The notice the Night Shift is turned on when the switch is flipped to Manually Enabled and the next day is turned on. Press that switch to turn Night Shift off.

If you’ve set up Night Shift on your iPhone, it will turn on automatically for a specified period of time. You can disable the switch under scheduled to stop Night Shift from automatically turning on at certain times of the day.

Night Shift can be turned on or off via Control Center if your iPhone has been updated up to iOS 11.12 or 12.12.

To open the Control Center, swipe down from the upper right-hand side of the screen when you are using an iPhone X or newer, or swipe up from the lower edge of the display when using older models of the iPhone. iPhone 8 or older. 

Then, press and hold the slider to increase the brightness. Next, hold down the Night Shift button and toggle it on or off.