low brightness after unlocking.

My girlfriend has an iPhone XS and the exact same issue has started with iOS14. Sometimes, when turning on the screen with the power button, the brightness is very low, even though her setting is at like 90%. She has to press the power button to turn off the screen and then press again to turn it on and then the brightness is back at good levels. This was working fine before iOS14. It happens randomly and is very annoying.

Hi there dmitriy170,

We understand you're having an intermittent issue with the brightness on the iPhone being dimmed when unlocking it. We can understand wanting to have it at the intended setting, and we'd be happy to assist.

Let's take a look into some settings to see if we can get that isolated. Head to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size, and see if Auto-Brightness is enabled. If it isn't, check to see if True Tone is enabled in Settings > Display & Brightness. We have some information on this here that may help:

Adjust the brightness on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Take care.

Hey dmitriy170,

Thanks for checking on those settings. With True Tone enabled, this may be affecting the brightness of the display. It looks like the screenshot of Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size may be cropped off. If Auto-Brightness is on at the very bottom, this would affect it as well. Try turning off both of those settings, and let us know if you still have the same issue afterwards.

Take care.

I’m experiencing the same issue on my iPhone 11. Even after updating to ios14.2.

The problem seems to go away when true tone is turned off but when true tone is on, the problem happens multiple times a day!!

Same exact issue here. Only started after the iOS14 update.

It doesn’t look like a solution has been provided in this tread (aside from locking / unlocking).

Has anyone else found a solution within iOS settings?

The only solution at the moment seems to be to turn off true tone. You can do so by going to settings > display & brightness where you can turn off true tone. I’m not aware of any other solutions.

I am currently experiencing exactly the same issue on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I have not attempted to turn off True Tone as yet however I will. But I must stress that if this works it is not really a solution and merely a temporary work around, so it would be appreciated if someone from apple could acknowledge this as a known issue and confirm that the issue will be addressed.

I experience the exact dame effect: a dim screen when unlocking.

I did not change any settings.

Quick fix is lock and unlock again.

or disable truetone.

However, this issue always comes back randomly. 1000 eur phone, fix this.

Same happens with me, I directly purchased device with iOS14, so cannot distinguish when it started happening.

at first i thought i lost the display here, but locking the screen and turning it on again solved the issue, but it happened again.

I don’t find a root cause in this thread, Apple please resolve this, it gives a dilution that something’s wrong with the phone.

Iphone 11 pro user with the exact same problem as everyone else. True tone and auto brightness off and at random times while unlocking the phone, the display dims significantly even when brightness is more than 50%. IOS 14

2 iPhone 11 at home. We started experiencing the same issue after iOS14.

How can we report it as a bug?

iPhone 11 Pro Max just updated to ios14 and having the same issue. Very annoying.

This happens to my iPhone 12 Pro sometimes, too!

I have same issue with my iPhone xs max

is there is a fix for this issue?