How To Make Your Screen Stay On Iphone

How to Make iPhone Screen Stay on Longer

You probably have the experience while using your iPhone that when you are reading something on your iPhone, suddenly your iPhone screen change to black. The screen turns to black is due to the default screen auto-lock on your iPhone.

The auto-lock screen will be launch automatically when your iPhone is idle for 1 minute. This is a way for the iPhone to save up some battery by going to low power activity if there is no activity.

However, as your iPhone went to auto-lock mode, you are probably busy reading some article on your Facebook or the internet browser on your iPhone. Therefore, it is nuisance that you need to touch the iPhone screen from time to time to make sure it does not go to the lock screen mode. You can make that nuisance go away by adjusting the iPhone settings.

Here, we show you several options that you can choose.

1. MAKE THE PHONE SCREEN STAY LONGER

You can actually choose the duration of time for your iPhone to launch the auto-lock mode. Therefore, if you feel that the default 1 minute is too short, you can change it to either 2 minutes, 3 minutes, 4 minutes or 5 minutes the maximum.

Here are the steps

Step 1
Go to Settings

Step 2
Scroll down and tap the "Display & Brightness"

Step 3
In the Display & Brightness menu, scroll down and tap at the "Auto-Lock"

Step 4
At the "Auto-Lock" menu, choose whichever minutes that you are comfortable with

2. DISABLE THE IPHONE SCREEN AUTO-LOCK

You can actually remove the auto-settings forever and your iPhone will never change to black screen ever again without your consent. Here are the steps

Step 1
Go to Settings

Step 2
Scroll down and tap the "Display & Brightness"

Step 3
In the Display & Brightness menu, scroll down and tap at the "Auto-Lock"

Step 4
At the "Auto-Lock" menu, choose the "Never" option

However, the disadvantage of disabling the iPhone screen auto-lock mode is that you need to manually lock your iPhone screen each time you used your iPhone. Leaving your iPhone idle without lock screen can drain the battery as your iPhone will emit light until it is locked.

Another problem is that you might leave your iPhone security at risk if it does not auto-lock for a certain time while you are not around. As someone might able to take hold of your iPhone and access it without your consent.

So, there you have it. A quick guide on how you can make your iPhone Screen stay a bit longer than normal and also how to disable the auto-lock function. Feel free to read our previous article on how to make your iPhone battery to stay a bit longer as well.

Please leave us a comment on what other iPhone tips that you have that you would like to share or want to know.