Do you often use your smartphone in bed? Then this new Android feature is for you

The new version of Android has an improvement that is very nice if you regularly use your smartphone late at night in bed. The function then ensures that your phone’s screen can dim even more than is currently allowed.

Although it is at the expense of your sleep, many people still use their phones in bed late at night. Android 15 will have a new option to make your mobile screen even less bright than is currently allowed by the system. The phone screen can then use a lower brightness than the current limits in Android. The new brightness level has appeared in code of a test version of Android 15, reports Android Authority.

As an accessibility feature, Android already has an option that allows you to temporarily make your phone’s screen less bright than normal. But you always have to enable this manually. Android 15 will soon take things even further. The new Android version gives you more control over the minimum brightness of your phone screen. The new setting is called ‘even more dimming’ in the codes.

Greater range of brightness

Currently in Android you can choose Adaptive brightness, where the screen adjusts itself to the light in your environment, or adjust the brightness yourself with a slider. But smartphones adhere to certain minimum and maximum values ​​for screen brightness, which Android imposes. Many smartphones can handle a lower screen brightness than Android currently allows. This seems to be changing in Android 15, because according to the code there is talk of ‘increasing the range’ of the brightness.

The new option will be under the adaptive brightness button in the settings. Users of the first test version of Android 15, which was recently released by Google, will not yet see the new option. That only seems to follow in the next beta version.

According to screen analyst Dylan Raga, the adaptive screen function will soon be able to automatically reduce the brightness of the screen additionally in situations with very little light. Set it up once and you don’t have to worry about it anymore.

Android 15

Android 15 will probably be released in August or September. On May 14, Google will announce more about the innovations in the new Android version during its annual developer event Google I/O 2024.

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