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 ...

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.

Update: As we expected, FlexBright has been removed from the App Store this morning. That didn’t take long at all. Despite earlier actions against similar apps, Apple has recently approved an app ...

The Auto Brightness setting on your iPad adjusts the brightness of the screen to take into account the ambient light of your surroundings. This is useful if you are traveling and using your iPad to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

iPhones use ambient light sensors to constantly monitor the brightness of their surroundings so they can adjust the output of the display. This ensures you don’t have cornea-stripping illumination in ...

I've always thought that the iPhone's automatic brightness setting was busted, and a new report confirms my suspicions. Ray Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies, outlines the problem in an ...

Automatic screen brightness has been a fixture on smartphones since pretty much the beginning, dynamically adjusting brightness based on ambient lighting. We’ve since seen Google offer adaptive ...