The lowest level of brightness on iPhone can only be achieved (afaik) if you turn on the Zoom feature under Accessibility and then use the “Low Light” option under “Zoom Filter”. Why is it that this level of brightness is strictly available to people who use the Zoom feature? Isn’t it easy to see times when people would want to lower their brightness without also wanting to use the Zoom feature? This seems like a massive design flaw. Why would they not just allow the brightness to go down to the lowest possible level without the use of “Low Light”? Or make “Low Light” separate from the Zoom feature.
I constantly turn on and off the Zoom feature on my phone so I can use the Low Light feature. Why not just make Low Light a widget that can be added to the control center. Surely the designers at Apple didn’t just look this over.
Not so much looked over, it’s just out of normal case use for most users. But I also don’t see any harm in having more default options.
But anyway, you can use Zoom or Reduce White Point to achieve this dimmed display, with the latter being a bit easier, but both can be made very accessible with Accessibility Shortcut.
For the latter, go to Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut and select Reduce White Point. Then go to Accessibility > Display & Text Size - then toggle Reduce White Point on, and set it to 100% or whatever level you require. Now you can just triple press the side button to toggle it on and off.
You can do the same with Zoom as well with Accessibility Shortcut, but with a few extra steps. You can even add both to Shortcut, and choose which one you want to use.
With Zoom, you can three finger triple tap the screen and toggle the filter there as well, with the popup menu.
Thanks for typing this out. Triple pressing the power button is much faster than what I was doing before.