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Originally Posted by SkylarEC

Yes, Apple will reject your app if you mess with the brightness. Although, if you still want to do it, you'd get the current brightness like this:

-(void)getBacklightLevel;{
	NSNumber *bl = (NSNumber*) CFPreferencesCopyAppValue(CFSTR("SBBacklightLevel" ), CFSTR("com.apple.springboard"));
	 previousBacklightLevel = [bl floatValue]; //a variable to store the previous level so you can reset it.
	 [bl release];
}

And to set the backlight level, add this line

GSEventSetBacklightLevel(newLevel); //The new level: 0.0 - 1.0.

In order for this to work, you will need to include GraphicsServices.h. Depending on where you get your headers, you may need to add the GSEventSetBacklightLevel(float value); method to the headers, else the method won't quite work. [Some have reported kernel panics by not amending the header, but that has not been my experience]

wow sorry to raise such as an old thread, but does anyone know if this still works. I can't seem to return the current backlight value anymore (I'm sure it worked once)....its for a private app BTW so no App store violations

TIA, Michael.