Adjust brightness by sliding across the status bar not working

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I’ve gone to settings > system > status bar and turned on “Adjust brightness by sliding across the status bar” but it doesn’t seem to be working: sliding left and right along the status bar doesn’t do anything and sliding down gives the usual pulldown menu. I’m using a fairphone 3, I’m not sure which number in settings corresponds to the version of / e / that I’m using

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Ok I found the solution, it only works if you have adaptive brightness turned off. I’m going to put in a feature request to change this because the reason I’m looking into this in the first place is that I want to use adaptive brightness but it is usually too dark, so until it learns my preferences I want a quick way to change brightness. Having to swipe down TWICE and then having to swipe up TWICE just to change brightness seems very cumbersome.

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If you swipe down with two fingers you’ll get there faster. Not an ideal solution, but a quick fix.