Video Mode - Why isn’t this a thing?

[tomtad]

So I’m not sure if it’s just me but whenever I play a video I always have to go to Control Centre, turn the brightness up and then continue otherwise they are generally too dark. Then when I’ve finished watching the video I get a blinding white screen and then up to Control Centre again and turn it down again.

It seems a simple thing to have the screen brighten automatically when watching a video and then dim when the video is closed but it doesn’t seem to exist. It would be such a useful feature.

Is there anything hiding in Accessibly or a shortcut maybe that can achieve this?

 

[UKapple73]

Agree, they have this on Samsungs, when you watch a video the brightness goes up, of course you can turn that off if you don’t want it
Can’t see why that’s not in IOS but we could say that about a lot of things. Probably something to do with battery life yadda yadda

 

[UKapple73]

Thinking about it, maybe there’s a workaround where you set an automation when you open your video apps, say when you open YouTube it adjusts brightness to 100. And then back down when you close. Guess the issue there would be it would screw with your auto brightness setting

 

[Rnd-chars]

I’d wager because not everyone wants to increase their screen’s brightness when watching a movie. Personally, I tend to leave the brightness as is when watching most films, but sometimes decrease it (particularly when viewing on a miniLED) when I find the brights on HDR media too extreme.

While they could define a “Cinema” mode (similar to Gaming mode in Sonoma) which a user could configure, that gets a bit fiddly and I suspect most folks wouldn’t use it. Plus, I could see folks wanting it to vary depending on what they’re watching. For example, folks might want their screens 20% brighter/higher contrast/whatever when watching an action blockbuster, but softer/dimmer when watching film noire.

Shortcuts is probably the best fit for someone like you.