iOS 11 Auto Brightness

Same here.

Was walking with my iPhone 7 plus in my pocket, burning sun at noon then I removed it from my pocket to see a message. The screen was almost black and simply can't light up. Going to settings and moving the brightness up didn't change much.

It seems auto-brightness is really broken on iOS 11.

My auto brightness on my 7 plus hasn’t worked since 10.3. Screen gets really bright when I’m in a dark room and it refuses to dim. I’ll turn the phone off and on. Turn auto brightness off and on. Sometimes it works, but too often it doesn’t. Nothing fixes it. And after I installed iOS 11.03 it has been even worse. At first I thought it had been turned off completely. Then thought the feature had been removed by Apple since they choose to bury it in the settings to hide it from their users. Finally searched and found it and it was on. On but no working. This really needs to be fixed. My wife’s phone constantly has the same problem. And seeing how many other people are complaining, it’s not just a install/reinstall issue. It’s a bug that Apple needs to fix. Hopefully soon.

I’m almost positive it’s a software problem - I have the 7Plus and this wasn’t a problem until I upgraded to ios11. Since Apple was so focused on fixing the auto fix “I” to A ? Bug I haven’t heard anything about our auto brightness issue. Frustrating.

I found the solution!

Try to press the side button multiple times and it goes to the original brightness. I did it 3 times or more and will call the SOS emergency call, remember to hang up.

In addition, I had my Air Pods playing if that makes any change on troubleshooting.

I remember I did it while in my pocket thinking it was the volume and I had the problem right after.

Now you know Apple!

But I relay on some of the comments in here, this doesn't solve other use cases where in dark areas, brightness is too high for no reason. (Me in the mornings is '20%' when I always put it at the lowest point when going to sleep)

Also, Car Mode should have it's specific brightness level.

Put that in your dev road map Apple!

maybe if we use tempered glass will have an impact on sensor accuracy. is that right apple ?

I know !!! it disappear in Display accommodations after 11.2.6 update before all was working right

updated to 11.3 stil the same

If you are not seeing it where I described, then you need to check Restrictions, or restore your phone to a current backup. It should appear in that section, or you have a corrupt iOS.

Auto brightness is not working properly in apple5S. Once I switch on the auto brightness option, the brightness is not changing based on th light intensity.

This option also kept in some where in settings. Kindly bring back to old position.

I have same problem as IOS 11 ruined auto brightness on my iPhone 6s plus and till now in IOS 11.0.3 it doesn't work as it suppose to do as in previous versions of IOS prior IOS 11 especially when I enable low power mode which worsen this bug..Apple really lost its touch and every IOS update brings bugs more than new features 😡

The reduce white point setting has always been off. So it hasn’t made a difference. I’ve turned it in for a few days and still didn’t help. Turned it back off. Still the same. Auto brightness works sometimes, but usually it doesn’t. Using reduce white point has actually helped increase my battery life because my screen doesn’t stay bright all day long (since auto brightness isn’t auto dimming it like it’s supposed to).

Hello,

since the update to the beta 11.1 the Auto Bridgess Switch is gone ? And it is missing in the stable 11.1 too - can you tell me why ?

And in the overview there is a “on” in display Settings - but it isn’t ?

All options are off ??

Same problem for me.

I have an iPhone 8, and even with auto brightness on, auto brightness is not working. It works only the first seconds I turn off and then turn on back the "auto brightness" switch in the accessibility menu.

This is a very annoying problem. I would like to know if this is a software problem or an hardware problem. I don't know if i have to bring my iPhone to an apple store for a check.

Hie,

I am also having the same problem after updating to ios 11.2.., previously it was working fi9 for me, I have tried almost all the solutions, but the issue remains the same.

My working is mostly outside and under bright sunlight due to this problem I had to switch brightness several times which drains battery a lot.

So, if any one have solution will appreciate that.

Regards.

Still having this problem after updating to 11.2.6 but not on my iPhone 6s - on my three office iPads (9.7 iPad 2, 10.5 & 12.9 iPad Pros). Hard to believe that this has existed since iOS 10.3 and still not fixed.

Even after i go to the settings and turn off auto brightness and turn off the white balamce thing my ohine still automatically gets dimmer and brighter randomly to where i cant fix it and to where i can barely see it in the sunlight.