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14PM screen brightness goes to 0 overnight and does not reset on wake in the morning
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I did a search to see if anyone else was having the same issue before I made the same post. I’m running iOS 16 on a 14 Pro, so I wonder if it’s an “Always On Display” bug.
By chance, do you have automatic brightness turned off? I always turn it off and assumed that was part of the issue.
By chance, do you have automatic brightness turned off? I always turn it off and assumed that was part of the issue.
Same issue on iPhone 14 Pro with iOS 16. I also have automatic brightness turned off.
Reported this as a bug to Apple via https://www.apple.com/feedback/.
And contacted Apple Support - to no avail. They looked at my settings and commented about True Tone (which isn't a brightness setting but uses ambient light to maintain temperature; she claimed that was an issue for her phone doing this in the past); so we turned it on and back off.
I'll see what happens tomorrow morning.
Reported this as a bug to Apple via https://www.apple.com/feedback/.
And contacted Apple Support - to no avail. They looked at my settings and commented about True Tone (which isn't a brightness setting but uses ambient light to maintain temperature; she claimed that was an issue for her phone doing this in the past); so we turned it on and back off.
I'll see what happens tomorrow morning.
I just saw that Apple has released iOS 16.02.
MacRumors Article: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/22/apple-releases-ios-16-0-2/
The article doesn't mention this issue; however, I'm currently updating my iPhone 14 Pro, and will report what happens regarding this issue tomorrow morning.
MacRumors Article: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/09/22/apple-releases-ios-16-0-2/
The article doesn't mention this issue; however, I'm currently updating my iPhone 14 Pro, and will report what happens regarding this issue tomorrow morning.
Apparent SUCCESS this morning!
Here’s what I did:
Updated iPhone 14 Pro to iOS 16.0.2, which was released yesterday.
Went into Settings > Display and Brightness > Turned Off AOD (Always On Display).
Rebooted iPhone (Pressed Volume Up, the Volume Down, the Held Power Button until Screen went black AND the start-up white Apple Logo appeared, then released it).
After reboot, turned AOD back on, then rebooted iPhone once more.
Placed iPhone on wireless charging stand overnight,
When I woke this morning, I swiped up on the Lock Screen and was delighted to see the Display Brightness had remained where it was sett from last night.
Here’s what I did:
Updated iPhone 14 Pro to iOS 16.0.2, which was released yesterday.
Went into Settings > Display and Brightness > Turned Off AOD (Always On Display).
Rebooted iPhone (Pressed Volume Up, the Volume Down, the Held Power Button until Screen went black AND the start-up white Apple Logo appeared, then released it).
After reboot, turned AOD back on, then rebooted iPhone once more.
Placed iPhone on wireless charging stand overnight,
When I woke this morning, I swiped up on the Lock Screen and was delighted to see the Display Brightness had remained where it was sett from last night.
I noticed this issue this morning on my 14 PM when I took my phone off the charger. My brightness was all the way down, and I was in my still dark-ish bedroom. I keep auto-brightness turned on all the time. After I got up and went into the bathroom with the lights on, I set my phone down on the counter, waited a few seconds, then checked the brightness level. It had gone up on its own quite a bit. FWIW, I did update to 16.0.2 last evening - whether or not that had any effect is unclear.
Happening to me too with 16.0.1 on a 14 PM. I have auto brightness off but I’ve had that off in every iPhone I’ve ever owned. This problem only started with iOS 16 on this phone.
The same problem occurs on my iPhone 14 Pro as well. (iOS 16.0.2 currently, and the issue has not been fixed.), I've gave feedback to apple on: https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone/
Solution is posted above.
Turn off always on display. Reboot. Turn on always on display. Reboot.
EDIT: After several days of working, the problem came back so this will only work for a bit...
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Unfortunately that doesn’t fix it. While it did fix it for a couple of days, after two nights the issue is back.
Yep, unfortunately, you are correct, had the issue come back this morning.
This is really annoying and ridiculous that Apple hasn’t fixed it yet. AOD is one of the key features of the new phone so they should make it a priority to address this. Instead, I have read in other threads that they are denying that it’s even an issue - yeesh!