Apple Watch Series 8-9 is too dim at night

I agree. Let's go Apple, Fix this problem!!! I am so sick of Apple telling us how great their product's are, big massive media productions to to us how great they are and they can't step up to the plate and fix this software issue that so many people are complaining about.

Watch to dim in the dark: well known problem that has been all over the internet forum groups since ios 10. Just Apple refuses to acknowledge the issue regardless of the number of complaints or returned watches.

Apple knows that many have complained but it’s obvious that there is no fix for it as of now. Maybe if people keep complaining they will fix it. I agree it’s awful. I’ve spoken to some of the agents they claim they don’t know about this problem. Yea they know they just playing politics.

I just bought the Ultra 2 yesterday. Definitely too dim on low lights. It’s totally useless for me like this. And what’s it with the frequent password requests? How loud should users complain before Apple fixes the issues? The whole adjust brightness thing doesn’t work. I’ve been using my series five with no issues. I just gave it to my wife and bought this for $1,200+ yesterday. Unfortunately I’m taking it back to the store. This is definitely not a hardware issue.

I too have an Apple Watch 9 series and cannot read it at night because it is too dark!! This seems to be a common problem! Bring back the brighter light, Please find the fix ASAP — I would recommend for people to NOT BUY THIS VERSION IF YOU WANT TO USE YOUR WATCH AT NIGHT!

Just received my I watch, series 9. I love it except for the brightness. It’s a sad day when I need to use my flashlight from my iPhone to read it. Unfortunately, I feel this will fall on deaf ears as Apple has other pressing issues on their plate.

damoursf wrote:

Apple ?? Any comments on this issue? A reply would be appreciated, better yet, a acknowledgment that a fix is in the works. Thank you.

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. Apple will not reply to you here. If you want to address the matter with them directly, use the "Support" link at the bottom left of every page of these forums.

Same here. Bought the Series 9 and returned it after a few days. If you can't read the screen because it gets too dim in low light and you can't adjust brightness properly, what is the point...I don't mind loosing 15-30 min of daily battery life so I can adjust brightness the way I want it. Apple, FIX THIS!

Here is how I fixed my Apple Watch Series 8 to make it visible at night: I turned the display brightness all the way down to the left. Then I turned on an Accessibility feature called “Minimum Brightness.” I was worried how this would affect my battery, but so far it does not seem to be using much battery. The display is still dim at night with Sleep on, but at least I can read it.

BTW My battery consumption went WAY DOWN when I turned off the “always on” display and I have not missed it a bit.

This issue was resolved in March 2024. Over 20 hours of battery life. Having had multiple eye surgeries, works great over here. Thank you, Apple for listening to and giving us an option to adjust it in Accessibility. See previous posts for how to adjust it.

click the crown

open the settings app

on the first level scroll down to accessibility options

scroll down to minimum brightness and turn it on

it was awful before, now it works really good on my series 9, energy consumption is fine.

thanks for sharing

so the 7 with latest watchos is as dim as the 9?

This could mean it's more a bug than an intended brightness...

I tried both the 9 and ultra and returned both of them as I couldn't read them at night.

Not sure I reset my seven to factory after the update,so I'm not sure if this is the way the nine is made or it's a new update thing