[jxramos]

he's probably just surreptitiously using control center to dial things down. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202769

One thing I discovered recently was that iPhone volume buttons decrement the volume 1/16 at a time.

[csmeder]

Correct, as he gets older this won’t work because he will understand what I’m doing.

I’ve thought about writing an app that shows a pre set collection of videos from my photo library and then slowly turns down the brightness after a few minutes. If anyone want to build this let me know. I’d love to use it.