How to fix auto-brightness issues with iOS 6

Before going into details regarding how to fix auto-brightness issues with iOS 6, let’s take a few moments to note the basics about iOS.

It is believed that iOS 6 incorporates, at a larger scale, what the future of Apple and its platform, implicitly, seems to be. With more than over 200 new user-facing features, the iOS 6 brings a stronger and better platform, automatically adding strength in what concerns the functionality of the iOS itself. Not only is it important that it  does all of this, but the manner in which its solidity has been constructed is an exceptional one as well.

As promised by Apple, they did bring a different perspective with the iOS 6 – and the degree of updating the iOS 6 underwent is not to be understated. The readings of the ambient light sensor were not overlooked either and Apple took its time updating it. Some of the features it now encompasses are a much better memory management and also the Lock screen  auto-brightness.

However, this is actually one of the main reasons for which users have reported to be experiencing difficulties and errors with – the auto-brightness setting appear to be a problem especially for the users of the iPhone 5. Based on this, we have decided to do a guide for fixing this issue, resetting your auto-brightness if it is not working under iOS and therefore getting back in business.

Please follow the below steps.

Firstly, in order to test it, you will need to go into a dark room (or even a dimly lit one).

The second step is to launch the Settings app on your iPhone’s, iPad’s or iPod touch’s Home screen. Let’s see what next now.

As a series of options shall be displayed, you need to select (by tapping on) the Brightness & Wallpaper option.

The fourth step that needs to be taken is the Turning off of the the auto-brightness setting.

You can then set the level of the screen brightness by simply adjusting the brightness slider. Therefore, if at any given time you want it stronger/not, just use the brightness slider to have the change performed. You will set the slider all the way to low (or perhaps close to all the way down) if you are in a pitch dark room, let’s say.

If you have taken all of the above steps, you have to afterwards Turn the auto-brightness setting back to On.

Before completing the process, you also have to then turn on a light switch.

The last step is to watch the before-mentioned brightness slider move upwards in order to adjust to the new light that the sensor perceives, so now the auto-brightness issues with the iOS 6 have been solved.

As a tip, we need to highlight that you can consider yourself as having successfully reset the sensor for as long as the brightness slider is moving on its own. You should encounter no issues whatsoever from now on, so just make sure that you follow all the steps presented above and you will find the auto-brightness issues a piece of cake to solve.