These Galaxy phones have a feature allowing their screens to be seen in bright sunlight

Now that the weather is warming up in the Northern Hemisphere, smartphone owners are more likely to be outside where the bright sun could make it harder to read the screen on their phones. As noted by SamMobile, last year Samsung added a new feature to some of its Galaxy handsets called Samsung Vision Booster. When the phone is being used under high-brightness conditions, enabling the Vision Booster will make the screen clearer, easier to read, with brighter colors.

Vision Booster debuted with the Galaxy S22 series last year and works with Adaptive Brightness (aka automatic brightness); using the ambient light sensor, the phone detects when ambient lighting is high. The Vision Booster checks the histogram data from the content on the screen. It also analyzes the temperature of the ambient light and uses tone mapping to brighten dark areas of the screen and improve colors.

According to Samsung, the Galaxy smartphones listed below, all of which feature OLED screens, support Vision Booster. It’s important to note that, based on the devices that currently support Vision Booster, the feature is available for phones with displays that can hit at least 1000 nits of peak brightness, although Samsung doesn’t officially say so.

• Galaxy S22
• Galaxy S22+
• Galaxy S22 Ultra
• Galaxy S23
• Galaxy S23+
• Galaxy S23 Ultra
• Galaxy A34 5G
• Galaxy A54 5G

The Samsung Vision Booster turns on automatically when high-ambient lighting is detected and while you can’t turn it on or off, it does require that Adaptive Brightness be enabled. To enable Adaptive Brightness go to Settings > Display. Toggle on Adaptive brightness. Another way to enable Adaptive Brightness is to drag down twice from the top of the screen in order to see the phone’s brightness slider. Click the three-dot icon to the right of the slider and toggle on Adaptive brightness.