Trying to read with my display brightness flickering constantly from slightly darker to slightly lighter and back again nearly gave me a headache. Unfortunately, I found this learning process not easy to put up with.
This will not only make it easier to use the phone in a variety of lighting environments, but it will help save battery power by not keeping the display constantly bright. In an interview for VentureBeat last August, Google group product manager Ben Poiesz said that after about a week or so of use - during which time you are supposed to adjust the brightness manually to help the phone “learn” your preferences - you shouldn’t have to adjust your display at all. The problem was with Google Pie’s new adaptive brightness mode. I wondered whether there was something wrong with my screen, and so I did a little research. Every minute or so, it would slightly brighten or darken. The display couldn’t seem to decide how bright it wanted to be. Everything seemed great, until the first time I tried to read with the room lights out.
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I recently bought a Pixel XL phone - yes, I know: it’s way out of date, but it was really cheap - that runs Android 9 Pie. But if you’re not one of those people, you can just turn it off. Take Android Pie’s adaptive brightness mode, which is meant to intelligently adapt your phone’s display to your lighting preferences. Sometimes new features that come with updated operating systems turn out to be more trouble than they’re worth.