Timeline for What is this infrared light on my iPhone 4 and how do I turn it off?
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| Sep 3, 2015 at 21:36 | comment | added | MicroMachine | Well, @n1000, dear, I don't like your answer ;) First of all you should add to your answer the risks of these procedures. Maybe you "do it regularly" but when I reset my settings, I lost a lot of things. I lost my wallpaper (impossible to find it again... very annoying), and it took me 1 HOUR to restore my settings to the way I like them. So, yeah, I did "lose" something and I had asked you about that risk in a comment... Oh, and the IR light was still there, so there's that. Please edit your question to warn about what gets lost for each solution you submitted... and this might help! | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 14:15 | comment | added | MicroMachine | Thank you! I know what infrared is (I took the picture in the original question using ... an infrared sensitive camera I own). I was talking about EMR related health problems. But it was off topic! So everything is okay now. | |
| Aug 17, 2015 at 5:24 | comment | added | n1000 | @fabriced The sensor normally only turns on when you make a phone call or an App requests it. It simply measures if an object is close to the device. If so the screen is turned off. What health problem? Read about infrared. It is actually a light naturally occurring at the lower end of the visual spectrum and also known as heat emissions. You cannot disable it in iOS. | |
| Aug 16, 2015 at 23:47 | comment | added | MicroMachine | it is unclear in your answer, whether this infrared light is supposed to be blinking like that all the time, what type of information it records (constant calculation and recording of user proximity top device? why, to avoid lawsuit in case of health problem?) and whether or not disabling it will make the screen go dark when i place the device on my ear. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:59 | comment | added | n1000 | It is a safe procedure. I do it regularly. Maybe make sure that you close open apps: Press home button twice and slide the app upwards. | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:58 | history | edited | n1000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:57 | comment | added | MicroMachine | Hi! Thanks. What informations can possibly be lost during a hard reboot / reset? | |
| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:55 | history | edited | n1000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 23, 2015 at 9:49 | history | answered | n1000 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |