With this feature turned on, Windows provides optimal brightness and contrast levels, while saving power and providing longer battery life. In some cases, your computer might not display content at optimal quality and the battery-saving arguments may not be convincing to you to keep it on. In situations where 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. To disable or enable content adaptive brightness control on Windows 11, follow the steps below.
How to turn off content adaptive brightness control on Windows 11
As mentioned above, Windows content adaptive brightness control feature allows Windows to dynamically adjust the brightness of the content being displayed on the screen or based on the ambient light of the room you’re using it in. If you find this distracting and annoying, you can simply disable it 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 enable or disable content adaptive brightness control when using Windows 11. If you find any error above or have something to add, please use the comment form below.
