App Brightness

[JayeCat]

An app absolutely should not get to control my phone's brightness. Ever. This is an accessibility issue. I have photosensitivity and certain apps that I need to use regularly pump my screen's brightness to max. 

I really, really hope Samsung makes a setting for this, or adds it to app permissions that you can disable 

[Ray1]

You could change your phone to use dark mode and then your screen brightness shouldn't be made brighter by apps

I guess viewing videos may still be able to make your screen brighter

[JayeCat]

oh yeah that's definitely not what dark mode does lol. it just changes apps to have black backgrounds, it does not restrict apps from messing with your screen brightness

[JayeCat]

I can confirm that dark mode still allows screen brightness to be pumped to max by apps - I'm always on dark mode

[Helenna]

Hi, just to confirm is it happening with any particular app?

If yes, you can try to perform Clear cache for the app and check for the issue.

[JayeCat]

clearing cache did not work. The app is programmed to do this, it's not an accident. An app shouldn't be allowed to take over my brightness, this should be a permissions issue