Remember to activate this feature on Android to protect your eyes when using your phone at night.
Although we are well aware of the recommendation not to use a mobile phone at night when there is low light around us, such as when we are lying in bed, it is difficult to watch the net a little before going to bed or just when we wake up. become part of our routine. While we should try to avoid it completely, if we realize that we regularly fall into this practice, we should at least set up our smartphone in a way that protects our vision as much as possible.
In this sense, we can make a few adjustments, but we will talk specifically about screen brightness phone. Some people are not very aware of how much brightness they have adjusted and end up looking at the screen at a very high brightness, which is useful when we are outside but unnecessary when we are at home.
It’s not good to look at the light source is so strong when we are tired or when we are in a dark place, such as a bed or room. So, never forget to adjust the brightness when using your phone at night or relaxing in bed.
We can configure it manually from the Quick Launch panel, but we can also configure personalized charts in Settings, which automatically reduces the brightness level and other settings at certain times, for example, from 10:00 pm to 8:00 am. You can perform these settings whether you have an iPhone or Android, but below we will discuss a very useful setting that is only available on Android phones.
This is “extra dim brightness” or “ultra dim”, a feature that has been available on Android phones since version 12. We are currently running on Android 15, so this feature has been present in our phones for a long time (since 2021). . Even then, it’s possible that you either don’t know it or aren’t using it to the full extent it deserves.
Very dim glow before bed
The extra dim brightness option should be available on most terminals using the Android operating system. This will help us to prevent the screen from blinding us when we use the mobile phone at night, not only so as not to damage our vision, but also so that it does not affect our brain too much, making it think that It’s daytime now. and that we should stay awake, taking away sleep.
For example, on Samsung phones, you just need to pull down the status bar and then find the “Advanced dimming” button in Control Center, tap it, and activate it. If the inactive additional button does not appear in Control Center, go to Settings > Accessibility > Vision Enhancement > Extra Dim.. From this menu select screen brightness intensity and activates the additional dimming function.
As we say, this is a feature that can greatly improve our usage habits. As one Reddit user commented three years ago when the feature debuted: “New feature Extra dim This is my favorite button when I go to bed at night. I like being able to fine-tune how dark I want the screen to be, and it’s helped me avoid waking my partner when I go to bed early. “I really appreciate this feature,” he says.
In addition to this option, iPhone phones allow us, for example, to adjust the colors to be warmer at night. Android has also introduced more settings of this type, which we can combine using dimming.