Have you ever noticed? On some occasions, the iPhone’s display shines particularly brightly, even when the brightness is manually set to the highest level. But why? We have the explanation.
The typical maximum luminance (candela per square meter or nits) of a modern iPhone is 625 or 800 nits. But the screen can do even more. Sometimes parts of the display shine with up to a fabulous 1,200 nits, i.e. almost twice as brightly depending on the iPhone. But you can’t make an Apple mobile phone shine like this manually via the control center, it only happens automatically in certain situations. And when is this the case?
Extremely bright display on the iPhone? The reason: HDR!
Whenever content is played back according to the HDR standard – i.e. certain photos and videos. As the name ( High Dynamic Range Image) suggests, these are high-contrast images with a high dynamic range.
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In short: Bright is and then ththenghest level in “normal the operation” of the iPhone. Just to be clear, HDR is not an Apple invention. The standard can also be found on televisions and other smartphones. There, too, suitable content, for example, certain films on Netflix, is displayed brilliantly. By the way, not every iPhone is compatible with the aforementioned technology and shines like this.
The iPhone 11 Pro, Pro Max, and the entire series of the iPhone 12 (from mini to Pro Max) can specifically use the “brightness boost”. However, the simple iPhone 11 and older models fail because of this. And why can’t you manually select said maximum brightness of 1,200 nits? There is a good reason for this, and it may be due to the durability of the screens They do not shine so brightly for their entire “lifetime”. If you want something of it for a long time, the brightness level should not be constantly on “stop”.
