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 ...

So, you've been binge-watching your favorite TV series on your iPhone all afternoon when out of nowhere, your screen starts dimming on you. No biggie — you probably just have auto-brightness on.

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 ...

Auto-brightness is intended to make it easier to see your iPhone screen, no matter where you are. This might mean brightening the screen when the sensors indicate you're in a low light setting, to ...

In this guide we’ll show you how to quickly enable, or disable, auto brightness on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. We’ll also show you how to manually adjust your screen’s brightness if you turn auto ...

Android has improved a lot over the years but one of the earlier additions to the OS was auto-brightness. Dubbed “Adaptive Brightness” in modern iterations of Android, that does exactly what its name ...

Most high-end smartphones have an ambient light sensor that can be used to determine how bright your phone’s display should be. If you’re in a dimly lit environment, the screen doesn’t need to be very ...

So you've realized that your iPhone's screen dims on its own. What's happening there? Is there something wrong with your phone? If you're looking for answers to such questions, you're not alone.

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" ...

It has always annoyed me when laptops automatically adjust backlighting based on the current powermanagement setting - especially because plugging power in or out will trigger the switch, as if ...

Several readers report increased sensitivity in OS X's automatic screen brightness feature -- enabled via the "Automatically adjust brightness as ambient light changes" option in newer PowerBooks' ...