how to unlock special low light mode

In bed, at the cinema or in the car or bus as a passenger, you may sometimes want read on your iPhone without disturbing your neighbors. For this, different solutions exist. Switch the iPhone to dark mode, set the screen brightness to minimum from the control center, activate Night Shift which reduces the emission of blue light from the screen, you have the choice. But if the iPhone still seems too bright after trying one or more of these three solutions, you can always try this trick.

In the functions of the Accessibility section, iOS offers several fairly practical options which can sometimes be diverted from their initial purpose. This is the case of zoom, which normally allows you to enlarge part of the screen, but which, in this case, can also be transformed into a low light filter. Here’s how to take advantage of it.

How to turn zoom into low light filter

Follow these steps:

Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom

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In “Zoom Filter”, choose “Low Lighting”

Go to Settings > Accessibility
Continue in “Accessibility Shortcut” at the bottom

There you go, your low light filter is ready. To activate it:

Press the Home button or Power button three times for devices without a Home button
Choose Zoom

Zoom out to minimum by double-tapping with three fingers on the screen, holding the second press and pinching your fingers

That’s it, your now enjoy a screen with brightness reduced to a minimum.

To exit Zoom mode, triple-press the Home/Power button again and uncheck Zoom.

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