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question everything

(49,267 posts) Tue Jun 6, 2023, 11:29 AM Jun 2023

I am a relatively new iPhone user

I use it for calls, texts and occasional visits of Facebook and Nextdoor to see what is new, thus, I continually move around the screen.

But during longer phone calls or on Facetime, when the screen starts fading I touch it to brighten it back, worrying that it may shut off. Shall I?

Thanks

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I am a relatively new iPhone user (Original Post) question everything Jun 2023 OP

Its a battery saving method as well as privacy of yourself from others. Tetrachloride Jun 2023 #1

Thank you. Bottom line: do I need to keep tapping to keep the lines open? question everything Jun 2023 #3

Negative. but keep asking questions. something new all the time Tetrachloride Jun 2023 #4

Settings is your friend PJMcK Jun 2023 #2

Tetrachloride

(8,515 posts)

1. Its a battery saving method as well as privacy of yourself from others.

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Tue Jun 6, 2023, 11:50 AM

Jun 2023

(privacy of light illumination of you.. grammar on the rocks)

Either way is ok. After a while, its all subconscious automatic, whatever your choice is.

question everything

(49,267 posts)

3. Thank you. Bottom line: do I need to keep tapping to keep the lines open?

Reply to Tetrachloride (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 6, 2023, 01:41 PM

Jun 2023

Tetrachloride

(8,515 posts)

4. Negative. but keep asking questions. something new all the time

Reply to question everything (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 6, 2023, 01:54 PM

Jun 2023

PJMcK

(23,194 posts)

2. Settings is your friend

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Tue Jun 6, 2023, 12:21 PM

Jun 2023

On your Home screen, select the Settings app. Carefully go through all of the topics and their functions. You can’t hurt anything and you can always chance it back. (The one exception is Reset. NEVER okay that!)

There’s a topic for your screen where you can adjust the dimming feature.

Good luck!

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