[prionassembly]

Do you have physical brightness buttons? Do you have any more gradual transition hacks?

Our 2-yr old doesn't have access to phones at all -- except perhaps when he grabs one that's lying around; but then he expects it taken from him. But he's so taken with TV that we plan screen time in reverse: start at dinner time and subtract how much time we want him to be there. Our whole approach to tantrums is having something else lined up rather than just shutting things off and leaving a void. I'm fascinated by your methods.

[csmeder]

We don’t have a tv in the house. And we don’t use our phones/iPad in front of our son. So the only time he sees a screen is when we are changing his diaper. The only exception has been when we are all sick we watch a family movie on the iPad with him. And if I’m being honest a few Saturday mornings I’ll watch a show with him while we are waking up.

I use control center to lower the brightness.

[robertlagrant]

> So the only time he sees a screen is when we are changing his diaper.

"Mum! Why do I always need the loo when I'm doing homework on the computer?"

"Ah."

[jxramos]

he's probably just surreptitiously using control center to dial things down. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202769

One thing I discovered recently was that iPhone volume buttons decrement the volume 1/16 at a time.

[csmeder]

Correct, as he gets older this won’t work because he will understand what I’m doing.

I’ve thought about writing an app that shows a pre set collection of videos from my photo library and then slowly turns down the brightness after a few minutes. If anyone want to build this let me know. I’d love to use it.