stackyFACTSLetting your device adjust its own backlight means constantly torturing a tiny sensor.
Letting your device adjust its own backlight means constantly torturing a tiny sensor. To smoothly adapt to your surroundings, the ambient light sensor embedded near your camera has to actively sample the environmental brightness several times a second. It continuously feeds this data straight to the processor, demanding constant micro-adjustments to the screen voltage. You are trading minor manual inconvenience for relentless background processing.
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