Hi guys, David and David here from payetteforward.com and upphone.com, and in this video, we're
going to explain what to do when your iPhone is too dark.
First thing we want to do is turn up the brightness on your iPhone.
The easiest way to do this, and the way that everybody should know about, is in Control
Center.
So if you have an iPhone X or newer, like David does, swipe down from the upper right-hand
corner of the screen with your finger.
If you have an iPhone 8 or older model, it's going to be swiping up from the bottom of
the screen with your finger.
So I will swipe down.
Yep.
And this little sun with the vertical slider — that is the brightness slider.
You can just drag this slider all the way down.
Oh geez, man.
It's really dark.
Yep.
You could also check this in the Settings app, but I just wanted to show you how to
do it there.
Yeah, Control Center is the easier way to do it.
Yeah.
For sure.
Up and down.
So you checked the brightness.
You already knew how to do that.
Yeah, you did.
So what's our next step?
Next, we're going to check the White Point Settings on your iPhone.
Basically, the White Point Settings are related to how intense the bright colors on your iPhone's
display are.
Let's show them how to do it.
We'll go to Settings, scroll down and tap General, tap Accessibility, and tap Display
Accommodations.
As you can see, there's this "Reduce White Point".
First of all, when that switch is and you drag it all the way to the right, it gets
really dark.
It gets really dark!
When you drag it all the way to the left, yep, it's pretty bright.
Very bright.
And you know, the default is 50%, I believe.
Yeah.
Let's just turn it off.
Turn it off.
Yeah, you can see... you should see a big difference.
I use Reduce White Point all the time on my iPhone because I like to use my iPhone in
bed at night.
And even when I put the this all the way down on my iPhone, it's still way too bright for
me to use, you know, in bed.
So I turn on Reduce White Point.
I have it about halfway between, and even when I'm outside, you know, it's still bright
enough.
These phones are super bright.
I think they should make them darker.
One other thing on an unrelated note that I want to point out real quick is that Apple
moved the auto-brightness feature.
They stuck it in Display Accommodations in Accessibility Settings.
It used to be a lot easier to access, but now it's here if you ever, you know, you're
curious.
They didn't want people to turn it off is what happened because auto-brightness, if
you have it on, will save battery life, and everybody, you know, surprise surprise...
has bad iPhone batteries.
So you can check out our video about iPhone batteries.
You sure can.
Up in the card up above.
Yep, and the comment section.
So the next thing we recommend is going, you know, back to the Accessibility Settings and
checking if Zoom is turned on, because Zoom is pretty complicated to set up, and there's
a lot of different things you can do with it.
But at the end of the day, if Zoom is turned on and set up in the wrong way, it can actually
seriously lower the brightness of your iPhone screen.
We'll link to an article up above in the card and in the description down below walking
you through how Zoom is used and how it can be misused.
So let's go all the way back to the main Settings page and walk you through the whole process.
Settings, General, Accessibility, and then Zoom.
So I'll just turn zoom on for yeah, there you go.
So you don't want that.
Geez, how am I going to turn it off?
Okay.
So if Zoom is on and your screen is super dark, turn zoom off.
That might solve the problem right there.
Hopefully it does.
Next step: We're going to just hit the software with, you know, a hammer, and we're going
to Reset All Settings.
Because at a certain point we're like, okay, we don't know which setting it is that's screwing
up the iPhone screen.
So let's go back to Accessibility, and back to General.
General.
Now that you're in General, you can scroll all the way to the bottom to reset — to
reset, and then Reset All Settings.
This doesn't delete your personal data, but it does wipe out things like Wi-Fi passwords,
Bluetooth devices, So you do have to hook a few things back up, but it's a lot easier
than doing a restore.
Yeah, which is our next step, or going to the Apple Store.
It'll save you a lot of time.
Yep.
So DFU restore.
It's the deepest type of iPhone restore.
It takes all the code off, loads it back on.
Yep, factory default settings.
We will link to a DFU walkthrough video in a card above and in the description section
below.
If the DFU restore doesn't fix the problem, then it's probably a hardware issue.
Right.
And, you know, it could be your display — some sort of backlight thing.
Yeah.
Apple Store, yeah, it's great choice.
We also recommend a lot of third-party repair companies.
We'll link to one of those and a card above and in the description section below.
Yeah.
Can I get a word in, David?
Yeah, sure.
So the, uh... the display...
I forgot what I was gonna say!
The display has multiple parts.
So there's the part that controls the touch, and there's the part that is the backlight
and the screen.
So people would come into the Apple Store with a screen that was super dark, but they
could kind of see what was on it because their backlight had been burned out or something.
And the rest of the phone was working.
They could touch it.
So they were like, "Why?
How do I turn up the brightness?"
But they incidentally had also dropped it in a pool or something.
Yeah.
Yeah, you know, water damage.
Yeah, and we're about to publish an awesome article about what to do if your iPhone gets
water damage.
The best guide on the internet, hands down.
Yeah.
So let's link to that.
We'll link to that as soon as it's published, for sure.
Description down below.
So that's what to do when your iPhone screen is dark.
It's too dark.
You can't use it.
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