Adjusting brightness increases/decreases brightness in realtime. It could be designed to have a “Save” button where you have to choose a new brightness level and hit save before it adjusts brightness, but that wouldn’t be desirable.
Onto the issue at hand:
You dislike the opaque gray of control center obscuring your entire screen, right, since opaque gray isn’t representative of the actual experience you’ll have using the phone?
I started with Notes, began pulling control center, pulled it a little more, and finally fully opened control center. This shows the graying I think you dislike. If I want to adjust my phone brightness to see Notes more brightly during the day or more dimly at night, I want to be able to see Notes as it will be when I’m using it—not have it covered by a gray screen that I have to close to check if I got the brightness perfect.
So, if the phone had a physical Brightness Rocker (paralleling existing Volume Rocker concept), that’d solve for this. Or if you could open a brightness control overlay over a small section of the screen so the underlying app were still 90% visible, giving you an instant & accurate preview of your adjustment.
For now you either suffer or get by with extra taps, opening Settings > Display > slide brightness. (Can say “Siri Open Brightness” at least.) But then have to switch back to your ebook which looks different than Settings.
The OP is getting confused and thinks that grey means their brightness is getting dimmed. I understand what you’re saying, but OP is just wrong about what is happening. They might want what you’re explaining though, since they don’t seem to understand a grey overlay to make things readable.
It doesn’t matter if it’s an overlay or a dimming of brightness or Tim Cook blotting out the sun with his ego. The fact is when I pull down that menu to adjust the brightness, the screen is darker than it was before. So I don’t know what the ultimate brightness is going to be as I adjust, until I flip the screen back up again when I’m done adjusting. Again I don’t care what’s causing it, but I can’t see what the actual brightness is gonna be while I’m in the brightness menu.
It’s not darker. It’s grayer. If you use a dark mode you’ll immediately see that to be the case. When you pull down the overlay you’ll see the screen get lighter since gray is a lighter shade than black. If you take a screenshot of the control center, go to your photos, open that photo, then do the brightness change, you’ll see that the brightness follows exactly what you expect.
What you are saying is just not accurate. In regards to knowing how light or dark you want it to be, just think about it before making the change. Do you want it to be half as bright? then drag the brightness bar halfway from where it was.
Sure, Apple could completely change how their control center works, but you’re the first person I’ve ever seen complain about this, and if you complain about it with the words you’ve been using then of course Apple is never going to make the change, because what you’re saying just isn’t accurate. Instead file a bug report and say that “Control Center background color obfuscates what the actual effects of the brightness are going to be when using the app I’m changing brightness for” because that’s what your problem is. If you were using a gray app you wouldn’t see the issue at all.
/shrug I’ve never seen anyone (else) complain about this and I’m not a UX designer. If they change that it will change the entire control center so you’d need to redesign the entire control center.
You lost me on paragraph 4 with the literalness stuff
Adjusting brightness increases/decreases brightness in realtime. It could be designed to have a “Save” button where you have to choose a new brightness level and hit save before it adjusts brightness, but that wouldn’t be desirable.
Onto the issue at hand:
You dislike the opaque gray of control center obscuring your entire screen, right, since opaque gray isn’t representative of the actual experience you’ll have using the phone?
I started with Notes, began pulling control center, pulled it a little more, and finally fully opened control center. This shows the graying I think you dislike. If I want to adjust my phone brightness to see Notes more brightly during the day or more dimly at night, I want to be able to see Notes as it will be when I’m using it—not have it covered by a gray screen that I have to close to check if I got the brightness perfect.
So, if the phone had a physical Brightness Rocker (paralleling existing Volume Rocker concept), that’d solve for this. Or if you could open a brightness control overlay over a small section of the screen so the underlying app were still 90% visible, giving you an instant & accurate preview of your adjustment.
For now you either suffer or get by with extra taps, opening Settings > Display > slide brightness. (Can say “Siri Open Brightness” at least.) But then have to switch back to your ebook which looks different than Settings.
I think!
The OP is getting confused and thinks that grey means their brightness is getting dimmed. I understand what you’re saying, but OP is just wrong about what is happening. They might want what you’re explaining though, since they don’t seem to understand a grey overlay to make things readable.
It doesn’t matter if it’s an overlay or a dimming of brightness or Tim Cook blotting out the sun with his ego. The fact is when I pull down that menu to adjust the brightness, the screen is darker than it was before. So I don’t know what the ultimate brightness is going to be as I adjust, until I flip the screen back up again when I’m done adjusting. Again I don’t care what’s causing it, but I can’t see what the actual brightness is gonna be while I’m in the brightness menu.
It’s not darker. It’s grayer. If you use a dark mode you’ll immediately see that to be the case. When you pull down the overlay you’ll see the screen get lighter since gray is a lighter shade than black. If you take a screenshot of the control center, go to your photos, open that photo, then do the brightness change, you’ll see that the brightness follows exactly what you expect.
What you are saying is just not accurate. In regards to knowing how light or dark you want it to be, just think about it before making the change. Do you want it to be half as bright? then drag the brightness bar halfway from where it was.
Sure, Apple could completely change how their control center works, but you’re the first person I’ve ever seen complain about this, and if you complain about it with the words you’ve been using then of course Apple is never going to make the change, because what you’re saying just isn’t accurate. Instead file a bug report and say that “Control Center background color obfuscates what the actual effects of the brightness are going to be when using the app I’m changing brightness for” because that’s what your problem is. If you were using a gray app you wouldn’t see the issue at all.
Thanks Tyler.
This is a reasonable feature request? “Give me mini brightness chooser overlay [top row 👇 mockup] not the full screener [bottom row 👇 actual]”
@Reverendender@sh.itjust.works
/shrug I’ve never seen anyone (else) complain about this and I’m not a UX designer. If they change that it will change the entire control center so you’d need to redesign the entire control center.