stop iphone from dimming

Really? KeAsia? Several years old thread and you don't think we know how to turn of auto-brightness!?? If it was that simple we wouldn't be posting here. Your phone obviously doesn't have the issue so don't worry about it..

Funny you've never heard the term as I heard it again, as recently as two weeks ago. Ontario, CA.

I too think it's a hardware issue. I've given up on trying to fix it. Hopefully the new iphone 10 (X) won't have it.

Understand and thank you. I mean it. This issue is more convoluted than the mother ship wants to admit.

(this post will probably be deleted very shortly and I'll be blocked from responding, again)

Pretty much all of my friends have the same issue and simply put, most of us have given up on trying to fix it because the positives outweigh the negatives.

Tonypucks wrote:

You can try going into settings- Face ID & password - attention awareness feature and turn it off. You can see if that works.

The person to whom you're replying posted in 2013. I'm pretty sure he didn't have an iPhone with FaceID.

No wonder they banned iPhone car navigation in California.....

Go to Settings, Brightness and Wallpaper and turn off Auto Brightness and then go to Settings and Auto Lock and select Never to stop hibernation

When using Apple Maps, the screen stays on during turn by turn navigation. Google Maps behaves the same way for me. I don't see any settings that change the screen timeout behavior so I'm assuming it's just supposed to stay on. You may want to try completely closing out of Google Maps by double tapping the home button, then pressing and holding the app icon until the little red minus appears. Tap that. Then, go back to the Home screen and restart the app.

By the way, this assumes you have the phone plugged into a car charger.

Best of luck.

Reset your iPhone. You will not lose any info.

Press & hold both Home & POwer until see the Apple logo.

Ignore the red power off slider.

Hello Scott_R,

The way how to make the screen not DIM AT ALL, is to go to Settings > General > Auto-Lock > Never

This makes the screen never dim, please tell me if it works!

He/she tried it and it didn't work. Same here. I have the auto-dim feature turned off but often, and usually when I play games, after 10-15 minutes it'll just go to very dim all by itself. (iPhone 6 with latest iOS.)

The only way for me to get out of it seems to be to turn my iPhone off and then back on. SUPER annoying...

Anyone here got other suggestions?

(besides the standard advice to "do a soft/hard reset, you won't lose anything.. Yeah, right...)

apple-av8or wrote:

He/she tried it and it didn't work. Same here. I have the auto-dim feature turned off but often, and usually when I play games, after 10-15 minutes it'll just go to very dim all by itself. (iPhone 6 with latest iOS.)

The only way for me to get out of it seems to be to turn my iPhone off and then back on. SUPER annoying...

Anyone here got other suggestions?

(besides the standard advice to "do a soft/hard reset, you won't lose anything.. Yeah, right...)

There is no such thing as a hard or soft reset with an iPhone, only a reset, generally done by pressing and holding the Home and power buttons until the Apple appears. And, no, resetting your phone does not delete any data. The behavior your seeing is not normal. If the standard troubleshooting steps do not resolve the issue or you are uncomfortable trying them, make an appointment at the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store. Make a back up first as, if they have to replace your phone, you will lose all of your data not back up.

Whenever I'd go to an Apple Store they would ask if I'd tried restarting my phone? (Soft reset). The follow up question is usually "how about a hard reset?"

So maybe those aren't the official terms but they're being used even by the apple "geniuses" themselves, at least at the stores I've visited. Hard reset definitely deletes some settings...

Thanks for the suggestion, if it doesn't get any better I'll definitely visit an Apple store again...

http://www.ubergizmo.com/how-to/how-to-reset-the-iphone/

apple-av8or wrote:

Whenever I'd go to an Apple Store they would ask if I'd tried restarting my phone? (Soft reset). The follow up question is usually "how about a hard reset?"

So maybe those aren't the official terms but they're being used even by the apple "geniuses" themselves, at least at the stores I've visited. Hard reset definitely deletes some settings...

http://www.ubergizmo.com/how-to/how-to-reset-the-iphone/

I've never heard anyone official call anything a hard reset. What that (very old article) is referring to is erasing the phone. Definitely NOT the same thing as a reset. In the "interesting" thread to which the article refers makes Allan Sampson makes the same point I do.

Here is the official Apple article on reseting:

Restart or reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

However, my larger point is, if a reset (as defined by Apple in the above article) doesn't help, the next steps would be restoring from back up and, if that didn't help, restoring as new. I'm more inclined to think what you have is a hardware problem, though.