How to Turn Up Apple Watch Brightness

You’re out for a run on a sunny day, and you stop to look at your stats – only to find the numbers barely visible on your dim Apple Watch display. Your first guess would be to turn up the brightness of your Apple Watch, but it isn’t as intuitive as swiping down and increasing the brightness using the Control Center on your iPhone.

Unfortunately, you need to follow a few extra steps to increase the brightness on your Apple Watch. You may find it hard to figure it out if you’re new to the Apple Watch, and we’ve been there too.

Before we show you how to adjust the brightness on your Apple Watch, you might be thinking, why can’t I enable auto brightness? Well, you can, but there’s a catch.

Apple Watch Has Auto Brightness, But You Can’t Control It

Your Apple Watch has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts the display brightness based on your surroundings. But there’s no way to intervene and control the auto brightness setting, unlike the iPhone. You cannot manually disable it.

While it is expected to work without issues, there might be times when the sensor doesn’t do its job. In times like these, you can resort to automatically adjusting the display brightness. Here’s how you can do it.

Adjust Brightness on Apple Watch via Settings

Here’s how you can increase the brightness of your Apple Watch using the Settings app.

Step 1: Press the Digital Crown once to open the app library.

Step 2: Tap on the Settings app.

Step 3: Tap on ‘Display & Brightness’.

Step 4: Use the slider to increase the brightness. Alternatively, you can tap on the slider and rotate the Digital Crown to adjust the brightness.

You get three brightness levels, so choose the appropriate one based on your surroundings.

Make Apple Watch Brighter Using Watch App on iPhone

You can also use the companion Watch app on your iPhone to turn up the brightness on your Apple Watch.

Step 1: Open the Watch app on your iPhone.

Step 2: Tap on ‘Display and Brightness’.

Step 3: Use the slider to increase the brightness. The changes will reflect on your Apple Watch.

You get three levels of brightness, so choose the appropriate one based on your surroundings.

Wake Apple Watch and Gradually Increase Brightness Using Digital Crown

If you have the ‘Wake on Crown Up’ toggle enabled, you can wake the display in small amounts, as you can gradually increase the brightness level as you rotate the crown.

You can start from zero brightness to the level you have set in the display settings. This is helpful if you want to glance at your Apple Watch but don’t want to turn it all the way up.

Step 1: Open the Settings app.

Step 2: Tap on ‘Display and Brightness’.

Step 3: Enable the toggle for ‘Wake on Crown Up’.

Now, whenever your Apple Watch turns off, you can gradually increase the brightness by rotating the Crown.

How Bright Can the Apple Watch Display Get

Apple makes no compromises regarding the core parts of the user experience, and this involves the display of any device. So, no matter which Apple Watch model you buy today, you won’t have problems reading the display under sunlight unless you get the first edition, which has a peak brightness of a mere 450 nits.

Apple Watch Series 2 and later pack-in displays with a peak brightness of 1000 nits. With the Apple Watch Ultra and the Series 9, Apple doubled the peak brightness to 2000 nits. If that jump shocks you, you should know that the Apple Watch Ultra 2 has a peak brightness of up to 3000 nits.

A peak brightness of 1000 nits is more than enough. We use the Series 7 and have had no problems viewing it on the sunniest days. Although with improved brightness on the Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra, the display will look more legible, and you probably won’t see the dust, fingerprints, and all the micro scratches highlighted by the sunlight.

That’s everything to know about the Apple Watch and its display brightness. If you have any further questions, move to the FAQ section below.

FAQs on Apple Watch Brightness

1. How to increase the brightness of the Always On display on Apple Watch?

You cannot increase the brightness of the Always On display on your Apple Watch.

2. Does the high brightness level drain the additional battery on my Apple Watch?

Yes, using your Apple Watch in the maximum brightness setting will drain more battery on your Apple Watch.

3. How do I increase the Apple Watch brightness using the Control Center?

No, there is no option to increase the brightness of your Apple Watch using the Control Center.

4. What is the lowest level of brightness on Apple Watch?

Apple has officially revealed that the Apple Watch Series 9 and the Ultra 2 can go down to 1 nits of brightness in low light environments.

Use Apple Watch Outdoors Comfortably

We hope this article helps you turn up the brightness level of your Apple Watch according to your needs. However, we hope Apple adds a toggle to enable or disable the auto brightness feature or control the brightness using the Control Center itself.

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