Samsung New Update Coming For J Series To Take Selfies In Auto Brithness Feature

If you have a Samsung Galaxy smartphone that is not of the S or A series, chances are it can be a bit trying when it comes to some features. One of those things would be the absence of an ambient light sensor. This means your device can’t automatically regulate the brightness reliant on where you are and what is the light levels on your location. But now a new update for one such phone, the Galaxy J8 to be exact, appears to be carrying a workaround to that.

The latest software update for the J8 doesn’t just mention the new feature by name so we don’t truly know what to call it. But it does familiarize an auto-brightness option in the settings. You’ll get a notification telling you that each time you unlock your phone, your 16MP front-facing camera will take a picture of you or in other words, an unsolicited selfie.

In case you’re nervous you’ll have an album full of weird observing selfies (unless you can automatically pose each time you unlock your phone), it won’t be saving those photos. They will just be used to amount the current lighting conditions and give you a brightness setting that you can use. So yes, you will still have to manually adjust it for a few days but later on, it will absorb your brightness patterns.

This update has only been noticed for the Galaxy J8 but will also possibly roll out for other devices in the J series, like with the Galaxy J4 and the Galaxy J6. The update also brings the AR emoji and the dual Voice over LTE support. It’s not a major update but if you’ve been grumpy about the lack of auto-brightness, then this should be valuable for you.

Hopefully, Samsung will bring ambient light sensors to its future economical devices and not just for its mid-tier and flagship lines since it’s such a simple thing to actually have. But for now, J8 users will “enjoy” having selfies taken each time they unlock their phones.