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One of the worst things about using your iPhone at night is how bright the screen can get. Even when you have the brightness turned all the way down, it feels like the light from the screen is still blinding. Luckily, there’s a way to fix that.
Make Your Screen Dimmer With This Quick Trick
The iPhone is absolutely packed with a ton of accessibility features that often get overlooked. While many of them are designed to make people’s lives easier when they have certain conditions or disabilities, most of us can benefit from them, too.
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Reduce White Point is one of these features, and for the everyday folks out there using an iPhone, this feature might not make much sense just looking at the name. The white point of a display is essentially the temperature at which the color white is displayed.
It’s vital for ensuring colors are showcased properly on a display, but it also doubles as a quick way to make your display dimmer—for when even the lowest brightness is still too bright.
I stumbled upon this feature while looking for ways to make my grandmother’s iPhone screen dimmer. The default brightness levels were too harsh on her eyes, especially at night.
This feature is really easy to enable, and thanks to the iPhone’s Shortcuts app, you can even automate the entire process to make it easy to set it and forget it.
Reduce Your iPhone Display’s White Point Manually
The quickest way to set your phone to reduce the white point is to set it up using the iPhone’s Accessibility Shortcut functionality, which let’s you set a number of things to open or activate when you press the side button three times in quick succession.
To set this feature up:
If you find yourself struggling to tap the button three times quickly enough, you may always edit how quickly you need to tap the side button by openingAccessibility>SideButtonand setting theClickSpeedtoSloworSlowest.
The downside to setting this feature to the Accessibility Shortcut is that you also have to remember to turn it off when you’re finished with it. Since I prefer to use this feature at night—to help keep my phone’s display dimmer when bright light would hurt my eyes—I prefer to set it up automatically.
Reduce Your iPhone’s White Point With Automatically
The best way to automate your iPhone is to make use of the iPhone’s Shortcuts app. Here, you’ll find a myriad of ways to cut through the manual process needed to open apps, set up features, change settings, and more.
Shortcuts are divided into two main categories: Shortcuts, which require manual activation, and Automation, which can be triggered in a myriad of different ways. For this particular feature, we’ll set up your iPhone’s white point to be reduced at certain times of the day.
To set up an automation on your iPhone:
Following these same steps but setting the time for sometime in the morning will let you set the feature to turn off automatically. Just ensure you set the blue toggle word toOffin the Automation before saving it. I recommend setting it for sometime shortly before you wake up if you’re using it for Standby like I am.
Now, your iPhone’s white point will be reduced at the set time of day. I prefer to run it both as an Automation and as a manual option, just so I can always turn it on or off as needed. But, of course, you’re free to set it up however it best fits your usage.
This is just one of severalhandy ways to Automate your iPhone’s daily tasksusing the Shortcuts app, and I highly recommend looking into other possibilities, too. There are a lot ofgreat iPhone shortcutsout there that make using your phone easier and quicker.
