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David Crookes

You can extend your iPhone screen lockout time — here's how

Apple iPhone 16 Plus Review.

It’s a familiar scenario — you’re looking at something on your iPhone and, all of a sudden, the screen turns to black and you have to interact with the handset to see what you were doing again.

If this happens time-after-time it can start to become mightily frustrating, but there is a way you can exert some control over the timeout period.

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