How To Adjust The Brightness Of The Flash On Your IPhone

To any iPhone owner, the fact that the LED flash on the back of their device can also be used as a flashlight should come as no surprise to them. Apple has included a shortcut to the shortcut in Control Center since iOS 7. You may not have realized, however, that you can control the brightness of your iPhone flashlight. Here's how it's done.

Starting with Control Center on your iPhone, choose one of the two methods listed below to get started:

• iPhone X and later models: Swipe down from the top-right edge of the screen.
• iPhone SE and iPhone 8 and earlier models, swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to unlock the phone.

When the flashlight icon in Control Center appears on your screen, tap and hold it for a few seconds. (The exact arrangement of icons in your Control Center will vary depending on how you customize it.)

After a brief period of time spent holding the icon, a new screen will appear, with a flashlight icon at the top and a large five-segment slider in the center of the screen. Although the top segment indicates that the flashlight is operating at its brightest setting, the bottom segment indicates that the flashlight has been turned completely off.

Holding and sliding your finger up and down the slider will allow you to adjust the brightness of your flashlight. Alternately, tap the segment that corresponds to the desired level to advance to it. Keep in mind that using your iPhone's brightness settings will deplete the battery of your device more quickly.

As soon as you're satisfied with the configurations, tap the screen once to remove the slider while keeping your flashlight turned on. To turn off the flashlight, restart Control Center (if necessary) and then tap the flashlight icon that has been highlighted.

When you turn on the Control Center flashlight for the first time after turning it off, it will default to the brightness setting you selected on the slider the previous time.

Maybe you're wondering, if you have the ability to adjust the flashlight's brightness manually, how bright does the flashlight come pre-set? By default, the brightness of your iPhone flashlight is set to the lowest possible setting, which corresponds to one segment of brightness on the manual scale. This is most likely a feature designed to conserve battery life on Apple products.

We hope this has helped to clarify the situation!