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How to increase the minimum brightness of the display in watchOS 11 on your Apple Watch

How to increase the minimum brightness of the display in watchOS 11 on your Apple Watch

Note: Turning on Minimum Brightness may affect your watch's battery life and the long-term performance of the display.

Short guide:

  1. Press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch and select Settings.
  2. Tap Accessibility.
  3. Tap the toggle switch for Minimum Brightness to turn it on.

Before and after

Images showing an Apple Watch face before and after Minimum Brightness has been turned on

This section gives you step by step instructions on how to enable MInimum Brightness in watchOS 11, with pictures of the screens to help.

Find the Apple Watch settings

1. Press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch. If your apps are displayed as icons, tap the Settings icon . If your apps are displayed in a list, scroll down and tap Settings.

Images illustrating the Apple Watch digital crown, the App Icon screen, and the App List screen.

Open the Accessibility settings

2. On the Settings screen, scroll down and tap Accessibility.

Turn on Minimum Brightness

3. On the Accessibility screen, scroll down and tap the toggle switch for Minimum Brightness to turn it on.

Return to the clock face

4. When you are happy with your settings, you can return to the clock face by pressing the Digital Crown

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