As I lay in bed this morning in my darkened room, the curtains drawn still, and catching up on the world using my iPhone, I was reading yet another amusing article on iPhone Matters by Chris Seibold when my iPhone’s screen suddenly got a lot a brighter.

CooI, I should be saying, or so you’d expect. Coz that means the auto brightness must be working. Dark room, screen gets brighter.

Wrong though. It proved what I’ve long suspected - it’s back to front. Whoever coded the auto-brightness was thinking of backlit keyboards where you do want extra light in a dark room.

However, for screens, we want them less bright in dark rooms, and more bright in sunshine. You ever tried reading your iPhone in full sun? Did you find you needed to go and max out the brightness?Likewise have you found yourself dimming the screen when it’s dark?

It appears someone at Apple screwed up over this one and nobody has noticed.

Hopefully it’s a simple fix that can be addressed with the next update.