This man explains apple better than Apple itself...!

I hope I’m not mistaken, but I think (and I’m surprised you didn’t mention this) it dims even when the sensor detect that you’re not looking directly at the screen, so that it can turn off the screen earlier if you’re not looking at it. The iPhone has a sensor that understands if you’re directly looking at the screen, it’s used for Face ID security purposes.

Also one thing I noticed with iPad. When playing games of high intensity (Call of Duty Mobile on highest resolution and all + Cellular data), iPad dims the brightness and it comes to normal brightness 10 - 15 seconds after quitting the app

What would we do without your videos! You’ve definitely mastered the iPhone and it’s history. I personally never cared for True Tone as I think it takes away from the beautiful display but tastes vary.

Thanks for this vid, it’s annoying at times for sure

Hey Greg I would like a video on the History of the Stock app since I totally understand why apple would make the app I always found it strange why it always comes preloaded since it is a relatively niche thing to include and gets barley used by so many users and there must be a reason

And one more thing: Maybe the ‘Reduce White Point’ feature is turned on (Settings-> Accessibility-> Display & Text Size->Reduce White Point) OR Accessibility Shortcut (Settings-> Accessibility-> Accessibility Shortcut) is set to ‘Reduce White Point’ which will automatically turn on the feature when you triple-click the side button.

I don't even use an iPhone and I watch Ur vids because it's really interesting. Keep up the good work!

One time I had my phone hidden in my lap while taking an exam, it was scaring me when the screen was brightening up. Now I know why 😂

Over the years I always wanted to know why… thanks

This has been bothering me for the last year and I could not for the life of me figure out why my screen would randomly get darker or brighter. Thank you

I have everything turned off and my phone doesn’t over heat and it still seemingly randomly dims. I hate it so much

The brightness on my 12 Pro max sometimes almost flickers - auto brightness, night shift and tru tone disabled. It happens when I’m just browsing and the phone is cool. A hard restart stops it and it seems to happen more in certain apps like KZfaq

I hope apple will improve and develop new cooling system for next generation soon as Loop LiquidCool Technology or vapor chamber cooling technology

Wonderful. My screen has been dimming before my eyes and I surely didn’t want to get on the phone with costumer service. Thank You

I noticed that my iPhone’s screen dims when I am in the sun or playing games. The phone isn’t hot, and those settings are turned off. It makes it so hard to see. An ex-friend of mine had another brand, and she never had this problem. I, on the other hand, seem to always have it, no matter what version of the iPhone I have.

What happens to mine is that when i dont use it for like 20 minutes or something, the next time i pick it up, the brightness bar goes down halfway, no matter my environment.

Can you make a video about why and how many iPhone 12s are showing a green tint in the display? I’m having this issued with mine and I hecka frustrated tbh

Thank you for explaining that! I had a feeling but this is confirmation.

2 years without answers and now i know. THANK YOUUUUUU

Searched for this and while watching your video my iPhone 13’s screen brightened back up. I think it heard you! 👍👍

iPhone dims screen when it barely gets hot. On 75 degree day I can’t be on iPhone 13 pro max more than 5-10 minutes before dimming to unusable level. My iPhone 11 never did this unless it was a 95 degree day and I was on it for 20 minutes. I will likely return it in the spring when it starts again and hope I get a new phone that works. Many others complaining about this on Apple support forums. This is my 8th iPhone and only one with this issue. Beyond annoying

True Tone Helped me Cope up with my Migraine since unnecessary bluelight in dark environments really hurts my eyes.

Also activating “Low Power Mode” dim the screen, and dim it further after a few seconds without interaction.

Ok so this sounds like a personal problem but, when I’m using alight morion (an editing app) it takes up a huge amount of space and my iPad does random stuff like force shutting down with flashing pink screen, also it dims the screen not seamlessly and I have to shut down just so it won’t do that ok I’m done with that rant

These videos make working as an iOS technical support agent a lot easier.

Genius Bar wanted you on their podcast.

Auto brightness always makes it too bright

Mine randomly gets dimmed when i unlock it and won’t change until I manually set the brightness or lock it and unlock it again. Might be a bug or something rather.

This was incredibly helpful!! It’s because it’s in direct sunlight. Glad I know now. Thank youuuu!

This happens all the time to me, even with new iPhone 13. Probably when playing roblox games most of the time. I always thought it was a bug, because even at max brightness and true tone off etc it always did this. Ty for explaining.

I kinda knew this was a feature, But It still made me feel worried cause I thought my screen is broken. This Video Cured my anxiety.

Mine was getting hot. This was one of the bigger things I had to adjust to switching from iPhone to android. My old LG V20 never did this.

This happens to my moms iPhone 8 plus but auto brightness is off. Is it cause she has a non apple screen? The phone doesn’t have true tone cause it is a non apple screen. And it barely gets hot.

I’ve been waiting for this. I thought it was something serious. Thank you.

i subbed apple explain a while back, because he doesnt have annoying intros, and he just gets straight to the point. He should have at least 15M!

Thanks I didn’t know about heat turns the dim screen

Ah tysm for explaining this

Night-shift’s hue can be adjusted if it’s “too orange” for you.

Most phones do this by the way, I have an LG and it will lock itself when it's too hot, idk if the newer ones do it still or just stop charging

Even in android this feature exists, Called "Adaptive Brightness"

Hey Greg, what programs do you use when making these animations?

I really missing a kind of customisable low battery setting from the iPhones. Why I can’t choose the screen set down timer from 30set to higher for example? 😣

Ay you finally uploaded! I really thought you took a break.

since the iOS 15 update i have an issue difficult to explain... it's not changing brightness, i KNOW all the settings in the phone (so, NO, it's not night shift, it's not auto-brightness, totally OFF, i always hated it, and NO weird accesibility options, i also know there are TWO auto-brightness settings) yet, sometimes the screen "dims" in a particular way, i have dark mode always enabled, on the settings menu (to replicate the issue better) i can see how the "black" becomes gray, and then changes back to black, like a "contrast" issue, but i checked all that in accesibility as well... really weird and drives me nuts, cause i don't know why, resetting the device solves it, for a few hours/days... and i freaking hate the "reset-device-to-make-it-work" solution cause it's annoying, i don't need to do that just to solve a problem that shouldn't exist... heck, the problem wasn't presen before...

Anyone knows why iPhones dim their brightness when there are subtitles or when i open an app or when i open the notification panel? Appreciate if anyone could help abt those

Thank you very much this helps me understand what was happening with my iPhone

I kept asking myself this question so many times!!!! Thank for finally explaining

I wish u could still turn off the auto brightness We don’t have it on iPad for some reason

I have true tone off, yet it still does it despite it being off in settings....Ok, kinda odd but a 1st world problem and there are bigger worries in my life to fuss over but I turned it off.

Thank you for the enlightening explanations. Greetings from Germany and a good health!

There's always an innovative explanation for everything from apple... I'm wondering when will they come up with the explanation for "why apple only gives you the box.. not iphone even if paid the whole price" pretty sure their explanation will be "environment protection"..

I already knew it had something to do with the temperature because I always use my IPhone 7 with auto brightness turned off and the highest brightness and when I play specific games like Pokémon Masters EX with increased in-game speed the phone gets extremely hot and the screen will go down for like 5 minutes before it gets back to normal and repeat. And the battery drains super fast, It’s kinda ironic because I got exactly 69% On Battery Health 😂

I have to be honest with you, I love your content so much because I feel you explain Apple products better than Apple themselves. Thank you.

If you are out in the sun it brightens up so you can see it better, and it dims in the dark so you won't get blinded by it

This video would be so nice if this was actually true, I turned automatic adjusting off for years now and it will still just adjust the brightness to my surrounding’s brightness so how does that work then ?

It could also be that you accidentally turned on “reduce white point”

What about when the phone is at 1% for some reason it raises and lowers the brightness on its own

ah, you forget to mention in energy saving mode the display will get dimmer and the phone will lock in 30 seconds (unchangeble untill the energy saving mode disable), and the light sensor work better if the ambient light hits the sensor directly, so if there is a tiny shadow exactly on light sensor the display will get dimmer (this is on any phone). the only dimming *problem* that i had is with some monitoring apps (like my sound mixer app) what should have a feture called (allways on display) dimms and lock the phone based on configuration set by the user on "screen and brightness" settings of the phone.

Can you do why iPhones don’t have headphones hole thing

Exactly

This video would be so nice if this was actually true, I turned this off for years now and it will still just adjust the brightness to my surrounding’s brightness so how does that work then ?

I always have wanted to know this

This helps me protect my peripheral vision.

I live in hot climate, now this makes sense I always thought it is a bug

omg i finally know why ... i havent heard about the actions iphone makes during overheating , mainly because i just gave up searching why is this happening .. after all those years of owning iphone 6, 8 and now 12 pro which is still doing this , most of my friends with iphones are randomly encountering this as well, even in premium reseller store where i bought iphone 6 and 8 nobody knew what was responsible for this all those years, i thought perhaps there is faulty sensor or it is battery issue , i dont know if android users are encountering this behavior but it was and is still weird to me ... so long lasting case is finally solved i guess, thank you

We are talking about randomly dims, both night shift and true tone are conditional(and by some thing that is obvious enough for us to notice) also human retina is less sensitive to yellow light, that is why even tho the brightness remains the same, we though that it is dimmer by just turning night shift on or enabling True Tone. Fun fact: human memories are not reliable. Thus, it is possible that you could have just forgotten that you have enabled those feature causing you to think that it is randomly happening/ random event(s).

Phones can also dim if the sensor is pointing at a dark patch in your room etc. The area where the phone is could be somewhat lit, but the sensor is pointing at a shadow

I Respect You Greg

Was about to get a jailbreak tweak to disable the random dimming, but this made me realize that might not be a great idea

O M G ive looked for an explanation for so long

Thank you

What type of damages occur when your phone gets too hot/cold

Yes i disabled that feature when the iPhone 4 released it

this is very helpful. android used 3 years ago lol

I absolutely despise this feature, and the fact that you can’t turn it off

Can someone please tell me the name of the song in the background of the video it’s so calming

I find the auto 3G/4G option in iPhone very annoying. Why can’t we select manually? Kindly explain this please.

my iPhone dimmed while watching this

Actually, low power mode makes it dim less i think

Now this is what I was wondering I have lunch in my car and after 30 minutes it dims even if I’m blocking the sun

Finally i know why this happens

I'm actually confused about how is that not obvious.

How do I keep it from doing this because it’s PISSING ME OFF

Simply explained *Auto Brightness*

Bro, Apple should get you to make videos for Apple Support Support. 😂

I love the background music

Hi I have been subscribed to your channel for (8) years now, an the content is always amazing, can you a video on safari website? One of my biggest issues with Apple!

Phones really are getting better. My LG phone couldn’t do that.

Sometimes, my iPhone starts to heat up for no good reason. I could be home, making my room super cold, not run anything heavy on my iPhone, and it’ll still start heating up and playing around with the screen. I just don’t get why /;

If Nothing Of The List You Said Is A Problem… And, Still My “iPhone 13 Mini” Is Dimming Randomly… It’s Only 2 Months Old… I Don’t Know Why… I Think I Notice This Problem From The First…

like this new short apple video format

I know I’m nitpicking, but none of these are ‘random’. They’re all deliberate and expected given the circumstances in which they occur.

You forgot to mention that Reduce white point will also dim the screen but this is done manually.

This man explains better Explain why we can’t charge iPhone while it’s off

okay..and how do you fix it

Thanks for the explanation guess you answered my question of the day😇😂

Why when an alarm goes off sometimes it doesn’t make any noise

Cheers for this awesome post .I finally got an excellent result will this lovely method when I tried it.I am enjoying it now

my phone isn’t hot, true tone isn’t on, and low battery mode or night shift arent on and it still happens. really annoying since i bought the newest 13 pro max with the most storage