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WHEN YOU WANT to adjust the brightness of your iPhone, you can only reduce it by a certain amount. For the most part, it’s fine but if you are looking at your phone in a dark place, any further reduction in lighting is always appreciated.
What you might not know is there’s a hidden ‘low light’ mode found deep in accessibility mode and it’s pretty easy to access, once you know how.
To start, go to General > Accessibility > Zoom and turn on Zoom and Show Controller.
A little controller with four arrows and a button will appear on screen. Tap on it to bring up an extra set of options. Tap on ‘Choose Filter’ and select ‘Low Light’.
Once you’ve that done, turn ‘Show Controller’ off and go back to the accessibility menu. If you scroll to the bottom, you can go to accessibility shortcut and turn on Zoom (if it isn’t on already).
Now when you triple press the home button and bring up accessibility shortcuts, hitting the zoom button will activate low light mode. Doing the same thing will revert it back to normal.
And that’s it. Bask in the glory of not having a screen that burns your eyes.
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That’s fierce complicated.
iKnow right?
Why do Apple bury some many fantastic things so that they are hidden from us? Do they know about them themselves? Wish they would make a better on-screen keyboard for the iPad.
“Reading under the covers” mode, I’ve wanted this for so long. Thanks!
Good tip. I use my phone as an alarm clock at night. Even turned down, the screen is still very bright. This should help
Don’t have an iPhone but have my phone set to the lowest setting due to photophobia after a papercut to the eyeball. Sometimes when it kicks up stink I have to wear sunglasses looking at the phone.
Ahh ohhh “papercut in the eyeball”
That comment should have a warning!!
Ahhh Jesus wept!!!
Tell me… is it only iPhone’s that allow you to adjust brightness?!
No, in Android it’s in settings… pretty obvious. Another Apple over complication of a basic function.
This tip isn’t in settings is it not george?
@George Indeed it’s fairly simply on Android hence the sarcasm.
Tired. Missed tone of voice, seeing as it’s text. :p Let it go; you know full well far dumber things have been asked here…
Screen brightness is in settings on an iphone too and its not over complicated. It says ‘display and brightness’ did you check before you commented?
Even simpler to swipe up from bottom and adjust the brightness slider
Quinton, thank u for telling me & ur information seems useful. Be beware, NSA might be unimpressed as secret has broken out!
Poxy iphone, who’s gives a monkey’s nut.
People with iPhones
T-bone, d:ckhead
I smell dumb
Old man talkin tough, ain’t that cute
What about settings>display and brightness? Seems much simpler if you ask me.
That’s what I’ve been doing but this way makes it much duller again
Ah john,
Read the article.
Ah John. Your just misunderstood.
I like the tip. Did it on the iPad. Instructions could be better. Just sayin.
I don’t get it… Swipe up, move brightness to the left, job done. I can barely see it when it’s all the way to the left. Just what does this complicated method do that the brightness adjuster doesn’t? I can’t be arsed going through all that to check.
Hidden depths!
Using this feature ages and it really is very useful darkens the screen much lower than the standard brightness setting allows makes reading at night much better. And it’s handy just triple clicking when you need to lower the light for whatever reason in cinema etc.
Triple tap the home screen with 3 finger tips for a shortcut
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