So that this situation does not happen to you again, we are going to show you everything you can do to reduce the brightness of the mobile to where you want or allow the smartphone. The developers do not stop working on offering us solutions to the problems and either in one way or another, we will end up making it possible for the brightness of the smartphone don’t reach the level you are at right now.
Why not lower the brightness?
Most users choose to activate automatic brightness on the smartphone, an option that allows us not to worry about the brightness level of the screen. This works really well when we are on the street with sunlight shining on the terminal panel, but it does not do so well at night in the dark. The minimum brightness levels they do not fit as we would like and the software is always designed to have a little more light and not leave us in the dark.
In this case we have to resort if or if to lower the brightness level manually. Luckily we are going to achieve this by accessing the control panel and sliding the bar, an option that will not be modified even if we continue with the automatic brightness unless a lot of light falls on the screen again. In this way, we can continue to use the mobile with the lowest brightness level. However, that sometimes is not enough, especially if we do not have any light on the bedside table and we are in complete darkness. In that case we have to go to the following solutions that we show you.
The new option of Android 12
Among the great novelties discovered with the arrival of Android 12, an option that nobody expected has crept into smartphones with the intention that we can adjust screen brightness below minimum. It is a quick button inside the control panel called “Extra Dimming” that allows us exactly what we are looking forward to achieving, lower the brightness further.
An option that we can only activate and deactivate manually from this quick access, with a series of extra options that help us control it. To access the panel for now hidden we have to leave the finger pressed on the quick access and can then adjust the intensity of the screen dimming. We can also make it stay active after restarting the smartphone or even add a quick accessibility button to have this setting floating and always present in Android 12. Without a doubt, a new option.
What mobiles include it?
For now the only terminals where it can be used are those that use Android Stock, which includes the Google Pixel, Motorola and Nokia as the main exponents. However, once other manufacturers adapt their customization layers, it is expected that it will end up reaching more mobiles as has happened previously with other novelties created by Google. We hope that in this way, smartphones Xiaomi, Huawei, OPPO, Realme and Samsung among others allow us to enjoy the advantage of lowering the brightness more.
Solutions to reduce the glare of the mobile
In case we do not yet have Android 12 and this novelty in the smartphone, we can choose one of the alternatives that some autonomous developers already added to Google Play some time ago from where Google possibly copied the idea. It is a series of apps that what they do is add an opaque layer that removes light from the screen to reduce it to the desired limit. A series of applications that have become popular in recent times, leaving us with good results that can be seen in the ratings and opinions of all of us who have tried them with the intention that the panel light does not bother us on certain occasions.
The first of the apps that we can recommend with this intention is Night Owl, the most popular app with this function that offers us a control over brightness that we would have liked to know before. In this case, what the tool does is add a button to the top panel and allows us to adjust the brightness of the screen, but the app goes further and also benefits us from the night mode tool to limit blue light and take care of the view.
Another of the best alternatives to choose is the so-called Blue Light Filter and Night Light app, an app that allows us, as the name suggests, to add all kinds of filters to control the light on the screen. To begin, we find a selection of automatic filters that allow us to control the lights on the screen, to lower the brightness to the desired level, but if we want them, we can adjust it to our liking and even program it for each night.
What should we do to take care of our eyes?
Now that we know how we can make the brightness of the smartphone not bother us so much at night or in situations where we need it, we must talk about what we should do if our main intention is to take care of our eyes. The truth is that one of the reasons for not lower the screen brightness further in smartphones it is related to sight, since if we lower the intensity too much, we will be straining our eyes and therefore causing damage.
The ideal would be to find the necessary balance of brightness and never forget that having a supporting light is essential. With that light we will ensure that the brightness does not have to go down so much and also our eyesight will not add up completely to the screen, losing sight of the depth and therefore affecting health in the long run.