Hello Shai, I definitely think you should turn auto brightness off and, unless you yourself have useable vision or have a sighted person who often uses the phone I would turn brightness to 0. You can always turn it up if needed, this will be very much easier next week when iOS 7 comes out where you can simply touch an item in the status bar, swipe up with 3 fingers to bring up the new Control Center where you have the brightness settting easily accessible. If you are concerned somebody reads over your shoulder where they shouldn't, you can still turn the screen curtain on, it won't extend your battery life, but it shouldn't hurt it, either.
Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shai Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 5:31 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Apple Accessibility about screen curtain and battery, was: battery draining Hello Sieghard, Thanks for checking in on this. Would it be good then to turn screen curtain off, set brightness down to 0 and turn autobrightness off to keep that setting? Also, what about if a sighted person were to use the phone, should that setting be left on? Would one still get the same affect of increased battery life? Thanks in advance for your response -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Apple Accessibility about screen curtain and battery, was: battery draining Hello Listers, As has been pointed out before, the screen curtain does not help extend battery life. I wrote to Apple Accessibility and ask for an official statement regarding screen curtain and brightness and below is the reply: From: Apple Accessibility [mailto:accessibil...@apple.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:45 AM To: siegh...@live.ca Subject: [415306] Screen curtain and battery draining Hello, Sieghard. Dimming the screen is the correct means of regulating backlight power consumption for best battery life between charges. Officially: "[turning] screen curtain 'on' has no effect on battery. Dimming the screen does effect the battery." The curtain function is a means to obscure screen content quickly, hence the three-finger triple-tap activates it. Please feel welcome to share this information with your discussion group. Regards Apple Accessibility -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing viphone@googlegroups.com. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing viphone+ow...@googlegroups.com. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
