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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you aren't satisfied with how Android controls your device's screen brightness (is anyone?), Lux is a simple alternative that is easy to configure, while still offering a ton of options. The ...

Mobile phones fit so well into our lives partly because they're able to adapt their behaviors to suit our needs. More than the likes of scheduled notifications or calender updates, smartphones can ...

Auto Brightness has been hidden in iOS 11, but it can still be found. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac You’ve all been there. You’re sitting near a window or a lamp, reading an excellent article on ...

To get started, we’ll need to access the Settings menu of your Wear OS smartwatch. To do that, swipe down from the watchface and you’ll be greeted with a quick settings menu. At the top of that menu, ...

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 ...

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 ...

We continue our coverage of the recent Mac OS X 10.3.8 Update with more information about automatic PowerBook screen brightness and Safari "world leaks." (Note that we have moved coverage of "pop-up" ...

Ambient light sensors enable automatic brightness control depending on the lighting environment. When used to control display brightness or the illumination level of solid state lighting, ambient ...

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 ...