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TL;DR
- Google is engaged on eradicating the Additional Dim function that makes the display screen dimmer than what even the bottom degree of the brightness slider permits.
- As an alternative, the function will now be constructed into the brightness slider, so you’ll be able to simply slide the bar left to dim the display screen additional than earlier than.
- The brand new function will likely be managed by a toggle known as “even dimmer.”
In the event you like utilizing your cellphone in mattress at night time, you then’re in all probability accustomed to turning on Android’s “additional dim” function to dim the display screen past what the common brightness bar permits for. Nevertheless, should you neglect to show off additional dim within the morning, you then’ll end up a cellphone display screen that’s a lot dimmer than it ought to be. Thankfully, Google has an answer to this drawback, and it might arrive within the first quarterly platform launch of Android 15.
Again in April, we noticed work on a function known as “even dimmer” that enables the system to “go dimmer than ordinary,” just like “additional dim.” In contrast to “additional dim,” which it’s a must to toggle on or off as you employ it, “even dimmer” is a function that may keep on, and solely has an impact at low brightness settings. When the setting is lively, the bottom values of the brightness slider trigger the display screen to grow to be even dimmer than ordinary, as Android applies a change that reduces the depth of shiny colours.
In our unique report, we speculated that “even dimmer” would function a substitute to “additional dim.” With the discharge of Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 earlier at present, we will now affirm that is the case. Whereas digging by means of the most recent launch, we found strings that state the “additional dim” function is being deprecated. It seems that Google is getting ready to point out a notification to customers who added the “additional dim” shortcut to their Fast Settings panel that asks them to take away the shortcut. The notification says that, as a substitute of utilizing the “additional dim” shortcut, “now you can make the display screen additional dim by reducing the brightness degree even farther from the highest of your display screen.” It’s because “additional dim is now a part of the brightness bar,” and therefore, doesn’t must be manually turned on anymore.
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Take away additional dim shortcut
"Now you can make the display screen additional dim by reducing the brightness degree even farther from the highest of your display screen.
This works greatest whenever you're in a darkish setting."
Additional dim is now a part of the brightness bar
Additional dim shortcut eliminated. To decrease your brightness, use the common brightness bar. Though the notification doesn’t explicitly point out it, we all know that this new functionality will be disabled by going to Settings > Show or Settings > Accessibility and toggling “even dimmer.”
The “even dimmer” function hasn’t rolled out but, not even within the newest Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 launch, but it surely’s attainable that Google might allow it within the subsequent Android 15 QPR1 beta. If not, then we would see it in a future QPR of Android 15, or presumably even within the subsequent main launch, Android 16. We already know that Google has plans to replace the brightness slider as a part of an overhaul to the notifications and Fast Settings panels in Android 16, so it will make good sense for Google to drop this alteration together with these UI updates.
