iPhone/iPad Low Vision: Adjusting the Brightness

Hello, my name is Douglas Walker. Today, we will be adjusting our screen's brightness. Now, the ability to adjust our brightness is super useful especially if we have issues with glare or maybe we need just a little more light. Sometimes, just a small change in our screen's brightness can end up making a huge difference.

Now, we're using our iPad in today's workshop. However, all of this will work pretty much the same, whether we're using our iPad, our iPhone, or even our iPod Touch.

All right, let's jump right in and check out how to adjust our brightness. Yeah, to adjust our brightness, we will need to head to our Settings app. And our Settings app is right here on our home screen. So we'll just touch Settings.

Great. Our settings have opened and we have been given two lists. All right, our brightness setting is actually part of our display and brightness settings. I know, who would have thought it right?

Anyway, our display and brightness is right here in our left list. So we'll just tap it. Our display and brightness button is now highlighted. And we noticed that all of our display and brightness settings have opened here in our right list.

Yeah, we've been given a brightness adjustable bar just below our light and dark mode settings. And we will use our adjustable bar here to change our screen's brightness. Okay, we have a little round bead here on our adjustable bar and if we just touch our bead and begin dragging it to our right, we notice that our screen begins to get brighter. Yeah and as we drag our finger back to our left, our screen will get dim or darker again. And when we get things right where we like it, we simply lift our finger.

And there you go. Now I tell ya, we can already see what a big difference this might make if you want to bump our brightness up or down just a little bit. All right, that pretty much covers how to change our screen's brightness.

You know, sometimes it's the small things like having the ability to change our screen's brightness that can really help reduce eyestrain and end up making a big difference throughout the course of our day. Again, my name is Douglas Walker. Take care and I'll see you next time.