This post shows students and new users steps to turn On or Off Adaptive Brightness in Windows 11. In certain laptops with advanced graphics cards, Windows automatically adjust the screen’s brightness based on the surround lighting conditions.
With Adaptive Brightness turned on, Windows provides optimal brightness and contrast levels, while saving power and providing longer battery life. There’s also a manual option to fine-tune the brightness level to provide optimal display experience.
Windows Adaptive Brightness settings is useful in any lighting conditions and makes sure your screen is readable wherever you go. Whether you’re in a dark room or in direct sunlight, Adaptive Brightness will adjust the screen and display the content in readable settings.
In situations where your computer isn’t using the best quality for content on your screen, you can use a manual option to fine-tune the brightness level to provide optimal experience.
The steps below will show you how to enable or disable it when using Windows 11.
To get started with enabling and disabling Adaptive Brightness in Windows 11, follow the steps below.
How to disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 11
As mentioned above, Adaptive Brightness in Windows makes the screen readable in any lighting condition. Whether in you’re in a dark room, sunlight, or in an environment with bad lighting, Adaptive Brightness will adjust your screen settings to help you read.
However, you can turn this feature off if it’s not helping you. The steps below show you how to do that.
Windows 11 has a centralized location for majority of its settings app. From system configurations to creating new users and updating Windows, all can be done from the System Settings pane.
To get to System Settings, you can use the Windows key + i shortcut or click on Start ==> Settings as shown in the image below:
Alternatively, you can use the search box on the taskbar and search for Settings. Then select to open it.
Windows Settings pane should look similar to the image below. In Windows Settings, click System, select Display on the right pane of your screen shown in the image below.
On the Display settings pane, Under the Brightness & color, clear the box next to Change brightness automatically when lighting changes to turn off this feature.
The changes to happen immediately. Simply close the Settings pane and you’re done.
How to enable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 11
If you change you mind about disabling Adapter Brightness in Windows 11, you can simply enable it reversing the steps above and going to the Start menu ==> Windows Settings ==> Display ==> under Brightness & color, and checking the box next to Change brightness automatically when lighting changes.
That should do it!
Conclusion:
This post showed you how to turn on or off Adapter Brightness in Windows 11. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
