Phone’s brightness doesn’t decrease smoothly when you start to reduce the brightness manually from 20% to 0%

Hi everyone! I have an iPhone 14. I wanted to ask users if you have such thing on your iphone: when you start to reduce the brightness manually very slowly from 20% to 0, the screen flickers a little bit at that time. Or if you start to increase the brightness from 0 to 20 % , but do it very slowly, the flickering happens again. It happens just at the moment of increasing and decreasing of brightness . Maybe it’s not like flickering, It looks like the brightness doesn’t decrease smoothly. In the static position of the brightness slider, the screen doesn’t flicker. When you start to increase brightness very slowly more than 20% (up to 100%), the flicker disappears and doesn’t appear. If you turn on the auto-brightness mode, and when the brightness slowly decreases less than 20 percent, the screen also starts flickering. When the slider stops, the flickering stops. it seems to me that this is the normal for iphones and other phones with OLED/AMOLED screens, my previous phone (Redmi note 10 pro with AMOLED screen) did something similar. For example, phones with IPS screens doesn’t have this.

I just wanted to know if anyone else has such thing.

айфон 14

Posted on Jul 20, 2023 10:23 AM

Reply

Similar questions

3 replies

Jul 21, 2023 11:30 AM in response to annhh3004

Hello annhh3004,


it sounds like you've done well isolating when the issue occurs. As this isn't expected behavior you can test the issue when a different wallpaper for your Lock Screen or Home Screen is used. If needed, find the steps to help change your wallpaper here: Change the wallpaper on your iPhone - Apple Support


Should the issue continue, reach out to Apple directly to report it and further assist.


Get Support



Cheers.

Mar 18, 2024 09:57 AM in response to annhh3004

I looked a lot into smooth brightness transitions on smartphones over the years, and rest assured, Apple goes quite an extra mile to minimize the flicker.


Granted, I also feel that it got slightly worse with the switch from LCD to OLED displays, but iPhone was for a long time (and maybe it is still today) one of the very few phones on the market that feature a display with a gamma corrected brightness curve vs. linear.


Put simply, the gamma correction gives you more resolution steps at the lower brightness levels, where the human eye is most sensitive to flicker.


Displays of Android phones traditionally featured only a linear brightness curve with 8 bit resolution leading to horrible flicker at low brightness levels.


This thread has been closed by the system or the community team. You may vote for any posts you find helpful, or search the Community for additional answers.

Phone’s brightness doesn’t decrease smoothly when you start to reduce the brightness manually from 20% to 0%

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.