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iPad Pro 2021 12.9” iPad Pro screen dimming?
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Chrome is trash, drains the crap out of your battery, google owns it, that should be enough for you to delete it for good, spying on you 24/7.I don’t hate Google Chrome. I’ve been using it for many, many years as my primary browser. It’d be weird to switch now.
From the day I got my iPP I uninstalled Chrome on iPhone and defaulted my search engines to DuckDuckGo (does the job 99% of the time). Using free version of AdGuard to limit trackers on iPadOS, it’s pretty much desktop-class browsing experience on iPP, but much more enjoyable and also ridiculously fast.
Sorry for OT, OP.
Yes, they did.
No, you pretty obviously have a bias towards Safari. Enough with the conspiracy theories!
This isn’t a mac. Aren’t all web browsers on iOS pretty much based on WebKit. Chrome is basically safari with chrome ui. It shouldn’t matter much which is used.
Yeah, it dims the screen a lot. It looks like it goes from max brightness to about 50% or below. Sometimes it’ll even dim twice in a row and go even lower. After a period of time it’ll go back to max brightness, but it’s annoying. As for the other question I was asked, no, I made no shortcuts. This issue was all on its own and kept repeating every time I tried to use the iPad Pro.
I sent it back yesterday evening and it’ll arrive to Best Buy returns this Wednesday. I’ll probably get my refund the Monday after that or hopefully that weekend. So I’m looking at being iPad-less for a week or so and I’m not happy. Really bummed out because I was just starting to get into the new iPad Pro too. I guess it can’t be helped, but I hope my next one doesn’t have any issues. I can’t keep returning these things and being without a Pro for weeks on end.
Workload? Ambient temps? Is the back covered? Have you tried pointing a fan on the back for cooling just to check if the issue is thermal related?
At max brightness, I wouldn’t actually be surprised if the replacement (mis)behaves the same way unless you take steps to improve cooling.
At max brightness, I wouldn’t actually be surprised if the replacement (mis)behaves the same way unless you take steps to improve cooling.
I turned it down from max brightness when I had it and it still did it. There really wasn’t a workload per se that should have caused it to heat up. Spotify and browsing the internet or watching a show/movie shouldn’t strain it. It’s not like I was 4K video editing or something extensive. Just basic tasks. The back wasn’t covered with anything other than being attached to the Magic Keyboard.
If I get another one and it does the same crap I’m going for an 11” model. I’m not dealing with that. There’s absolutely no excuse for it to be dimming the screen constantly when I’m not doing anything to push the hardware.
If you have to point a fan at the back of your iPad to cool it off just to make it work then that’s pretty freaking bad. Apple has disappointed me this go around. I always kept my other iPads at max brightness. It’s not like this one goes over 600 nits during regular non-HDR use either, so why should it be screwing up?
EDIT: Also, it seems no one else has been experiencing the screen dimming, so I am probably safe in regards to it being a “thing.” It’s probably just a defective unit. I hope so at least. I would hate to have to drop down to the 11” just because of that. Not that I don’t like the 11” iPP, but I prefer the 12.9” by a landslide.
EDIT #2: I originally wanted Space Gray, so maybe this will work out well for me. I am also thinking I will take this opportunity to step up a tier from the 128GB to the 256GB model.
If I get another one and it does the same crap I’m going for an 11” model. I’m not dealing with that. There’s absolutely no excuse for it to be dimming the screen constantly when I’m not doing anything to push the hardware.
If you have to point a fan at the back of your iPad to cool it off just to make it work then that’s pretty freaking bad. Apple has disappointed me this go around. I always kept my other iPads at max brightness. It’s not like this one goes over 600 nits during regular non-HDR use either, so why should it be screwing up?
EDIT: Also, it seems no one else has been experiencing the screen dimming, so I am probably safe in regards to it being a “thing.” It’s probably just a defective unit. I hope so at least. I would hate to have to drop down to the 11” just because of that. Not that I don’t like the 11” iPP, but I prefer the 12.9” by a landslide.
EDIT #2: I originally wanted Space Gray, so maybe this will work out well for me. I am also thinking I will take this opportunity to step up a tier from the 128GB to the 256GB model.
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I think some of us have gotten some dud iPads. My iPad dims when the ambient lights changes around. Sometimes it gets too dark and I have to adjust brightness.
I will be having mine checked for the blooming issue next weekend Saturday as my family and I will be going to apple store for our multiple reasons appointment. I love this iPad. I want to use dark mode but the blooming is disturbing for me even at 25-45% brightness. My notes app had blooming in top center in dark mode and there is no white spot/line etc.
I doubt this is it, but since no one else mentioned it, I'll take a shot. The screen will automatically dim shortly before Auto-Lock engages (not sure if it's the same menu path in iPad, but in iPhone it's Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock). So if you're not actively touching the screen for a period of time, you will see the screen dim. Is the screen dimming even as you're touching it?
Yes, it is. If it was dimming because of Auto-Lock, wouldn’t it go back to peak brightness when you touched the screen again? Because it doesn’t. When it drops the brightness level, it stays the way whether I am touching it or not until it decides to randomly shoot back up to the level I had it set at. It’s really weird. Never experienced this problem with any other iPP before.
That's what I thought, but just wanted to be sure. Correct, if this were the dimming that happens before Auto-Lock engages, touching/tapping the screen would instantly restore the previous brightness level. Sounds like faulty hardware, similar to an issue I had with an old MacBook where the display inverter went bad and the screen would randomly go to the lowest brightness setting.
I’ll give that a try, and give you answer tomorrow. I have to head to work soon. *mumblegrumble work blahblah* ?
so my 2018 does this a lot.... I read that it does it when it gets hot... so the other day, I was using it while it was charging... and sure enough when it dimmed, I checked to see if it was hot. It was quite a bit warm. Later when it cooled down, the brightness was back up.... I have not used my 2021 too much yet, so haven't noticed it....
My iphone 12 pro max does this when its hot. My ipad pro 12.9 2020 does not though. My 2021 ipad pro 12.9 is just two days old but so far have not noticed it dimming
My 11” 2018 used to do this occasionally for no apparent reason. It wasn’t on full brightness or overheated at the time. My new 11” 2021 has also done this once or twice. I remember reading here awhile ago that this is normal behavior for iPads, but don’t know if that is true or not.