Ultimate Guide to Adjusting Screen Brightness on iPhone and iPad for Better Eye Health

2024-04-26 03:57:02

Although many experts believe that it is best not to use electronic products (such as mobile phones and tablets) in dark and dimly lit environments, according to modern people’s habit of being inseparable from electronic devices , it is actually difficult to avoid such a situation. Some people may also think that the brightness of iPhone and iPad has been set to the minimum, why are they still so bright? Is there another way to further adjust the screen brightness?

Under normal circumstances, if you want to adjust the screen brightness, you can intuitively pull down the control center and directly adjust the screen brightness or click “Settings”, “Display & Screen Brightness” and find the horizontal bar “Brightness”; to adjust left and right.

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But if you feel that your iPhone or iPad screen is always so bright no matter how you adjust it, there is actually another way to make the screen darker, namely “reduce the value of the white point”.

If you want to enable this feature, you can follow the 4 steps below to configure it:

  • Open “Settings”
  • Search for “auxiliary use”
  • Scroll down and click “Assistant use of shortcut keys”
  • Click “Reduce White Point Value” to make a checkmark appear to the left of the option, and long-press the three lines to the right of the option to pull it to the top of the list.

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After finishing the settings, whenever you want to enable the “Reduce White Point Value” function, simply press the iPhone power button 3 times quickly, and a shortcut list of “Hotkeys d ‘Using the wizard’ will appear at the bottom of the screen. At this point, simply click “Collapse”. “White Point Value” can make your screen appear much darker. Even if you have already set the screen brightness to the darkest setting, you can still dim the screen by enabling “Reduce White Point Value”. .

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If you want to cancel “Reduce White Point Value”, you just need to quickly press the power button on iPhone 3 times, then click the “Reduce White Point Value” item in the shortcut list “Assisted use of shortcut keys”, then your screen will return to its original brightness.

If your eyes are still sensitive to light and it still seems too bright even though the “Reduce white point value” item is enabled, you can also manually adjust the white point value. Just click “Settings”, “Accessibility”, find “Display and Text Size”, scroll down to see the “Reduce White Point Value” switch, and after enabling it, you can pull the crossbar to adjust it further.

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Apple also offers an automated method to allow iPhone to automatically enable this feature at specific times (such as before going to bed):

  • Click on the “Shortcuts” application and click on the “+” symbol in the upper right corner
  • Click on “Add action”
  • Enter the keyword “white point” in the search bar and “set white point value” will appear as the recommended option below.
  • After clicking the “Set White Point Value” option, click the arrow symbol to the right of “White Point Value” and select “Switch” from the drop-down menu.
  • Click “Done” in the upper right corner of the screen

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After the setting is completed, you can see the shortcut for “Set White Point Value” in the shortcut list. At this point you can further define the automation:

  • Click the “Automation” tab at the bottom of the “Shortcuts” page, then click the “+” symbol in the upper right corner.
  • Click “Sleep” in the “Personal automation operations” item
  • Click “When does bedtime start” in the “When” item and click Next
  • Select the “Set White Point Value” shortcut

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After all adjustments are completed, the white point value of the screen will automatically decrease as soon as it is time to go to bed every day or when sleep mode is activated.

However, in order to ensure that iPhone will automatically cancel “Set White Point Value” after going to bed every morning, you need to set an additional automation shortcut. However, the entire setup process is essentially the steps above for setting up automation, except. second step. Change the three steps from “When bedtime starts” to “When you wake up.” The steps are as follows:

  • Click the “Automation” tab at the bottom of the “Shortcuts” page, then click the “+” symbol in the upper right corner.
  • Click “Sleep” in the “Personal automation operations” item
  • Click “When you wake up” in the “When” item and click Next
  • Select the “Set White Point Value” shortcut

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