After installing the new One U.i 6.1 Update, i'm disappointed to say that one of my most used phone feature and favourite has been negatively affected.
Scrolling through many forums and videos and even trying to test it myself, i realised that Always on Display (AOD)'s brightness cannot be manually adjusted.
AOD has always been dimmer than the normal phone screen brightness, and now with the adaptive brightness and inability to adjust brightness, the AOD is totally useless. I cannot see it in a dark environment, which defeats the purpose. This update has turned my most useful feature of the phone into a useless battery wasting feature that cant be used.
Please do bring back the manual brightness setting because right now, this setting doesnt do any good at all.
Rest assured, we heard your enquiries. This is moderator from Samsung Community.
Thank you for your feedback on the One UI 6.1 Update. We'll forward your concerns about the Always on Display feature to our team for review. Apologies for any inconvenience.
I did the same too. I have been using samsung for many many years now with s8 being my first S models. Till S23. Never had a major problem with any updates since s8, but this one is really a blunder. I have been using this new UI for 2 days now and the AOD is just really horrible.
I also wanted to add that I recently started using it as a clock in landscape mode at nighttime. I have a digital clock but I find it too bright so I haven't used it in a long time. This was a great alternative and now AOD is completely useless to me. Sadly this phone is fairly new to me but for my next phone I'll be looking at other brands if this doesn't change or if it becomes more impracticle to me. Yes even for something like this I will look at other brands.
Just adding to the list of disappointed users. I've been a Samsung / Android user since the first Note. If this us not resolved, I will not be replacing my 23U with a Samsung device.
