10 Things You Didn't Know Your Nintendo Switch Could Do

9. Reduce Screen Glare By Changing One Setting

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The obvious appeal of owning a handheld device is the ability to take it out with you and play it on the go.

This means you could end up having a gaming session while the sun is beating down upon your screen, but unfortunately, everything from the PSP to the 3DS has suffered from severe screen glare under these conditions, making it difficult to decipher the on-screen action and forcing you to hold the device at an awkward angle.

The Switch is no different here, and while you can't 100-percent fix the problem (unless you go inside) you can make it a bit more tolerable by adjusting one simple option.

Just head into your Switch's settings and disable "auto-brightness". Doing so will allow you to brighten your screen beyond the limit that's imposed by the auto-brightness function (the same is also true in reverse - you can make your Switch even dimmer without auto-brightness). And a brighter screen is easier to see.

Your screen will still be difficult to see on sunny days - there's no getting around that - but this will at least improve the situation.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!