How to Turn Content Adaptive Brightness On or Off in Windows 11

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The article guides users on enabling or disabling content adaptive brightness in Windows 11. This feature allows Windows to adjust screen brightness based on the content displayed, resulting in optimal brightness and contrast levels and longer battery life. However, users might prefer to disable it if they find it affects the quality of displayed content.…

This post shows students and new users steps to turn content adaptive brightness on or off when using Windows 11. Newer laptop and tablet devices come with advanced graphics that allows Windows 11 to adjust the screen brightness and contrast based on the content displayed. This is known as Content Adaptive Brightness.

With this feature turned on, Windows provides optimal brightness and contrast levels, saving power and providing longer battery life. Sometimes, your computer might not display content at optimal quality, and the battery-saving arguments may not convince you to keep it on.

When your computer isn’t using the best quality content on your screen, you can turn off or disable content adaptive brightness to see if it fixes your issues.

Follow the steps below to turn content adaptive brightness control on or off Windows 11.

How to turn off content adaptive brightness control on Windows 11

As mentioned above, the Windows content adaptive brightness control feature allows Windows to dynamically adjust the brightness of the content displayed on the screen or based on the ambient light of the room in which you’re using it.

If you find this distracting and annoying, you can simply turn it off when using Windows 11, and the steps below show you how.

Windows 11 has a centralized location for the 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, and select Display on the right pane of your screen shown in the image below.

On the Display settings pane, Under the “Brightness & color” section, clear the box next to “Automatically adjust contrast based on the display content to help improve battery.”

The changes are to happen immediately. Simply close the Settings pane, and you’re done.

How to enable content adaptive brightness control on Windows 11

If you change your mind about using content adaptive brightness control and you want to re-enable it, simply reverse the steps above and go to Start ==> Settings ==> Display and Under the “Brightness & color” section, check the box next to “Automatically adjust contrast based on the display content to help improve battery.”

That’s it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to turn content adaptive brightness control on or off when using Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to add.

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4 responses to “How to Turn Content Adaptive Brightness On or Off in Windows 11”

  1. Josh Mason Avatar
    Josh Mason

    hey i did that but it still dims and brightens sporadically, any ideas? Have no 3rd party tools papplied

  2. Callum Tindall Avatar
    Callum Tindall

    Also did this and it still increases brightnes on it’s own after lifting laptop lid and at lockscreen. Very annoying

  3. Jeff Avatar
    Jeff

    No fixes that I found anywhere stopped the dimming.

    Boot your pc in BIOS and go to the video section

    Look for something similar to ‘adaptive brightness’

    On my Dell there was an eco setting for the battery which was on

    I turned it off, rebooted and no more annoying dimming screen!

  4. Galina Avatar
    Galina

    There is no check box: “Automatically adjust contrast based on the display content to help improve battery” in the brightnes only slider!

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