IPhone 5 screen dimming

My iPhone 5 screen keeps going completely dark and I have to struggle to see the icons and navigate to brightness and fix it , but when I get to the brightness seething it is where I left it ( not on lowest setting ) also have have a issue with my sound not working ? Same type of thing sound dims down and won't get loud unless I got play a song or so syncing similar then it like kicks on

Hello Uthomas,
The way how to make the screen not DIM AT ALL, is to go to Settings > General > Auto-Lock > Never
This makes the screen never dim, please tell me if it works!

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