Windows 10: Battery Saver turns screen brightness to max

Instead of dimming the screen, the brightness is turned to the max brightness when battery saver mode switches on automatically. I don't see anywhere in the settings to adjust what the screen brightness gets set to when using battery saver, only a checkbox to allow battery saver to change the screen brightness. How do I make the battery saver dim the screen instead of brighten it?

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Issue with Battery Saver: Screen Brightness

Hello Karolina,

Thank you for your reply, however it was not very helpful for me. I never use automatically adjust for brightness (as you had suggested) because I had noticed significant battery drain and so I do have my brightness setting on low.

In your reply you state that Battery Saver does not include screen dimming, and while it is true that this does not appear within the app itself, it does appear in system settings: Settings > Display > Battery Saver Brightness [on/off]; "Reduces screen brightness
when battery saver is active."

I don't know if you personally own or have much experience with Nokia Lumias (because I am unsure if this is an issue on other phones running Windows 8.1), but prior to the 8.1 Cyan update, Battery Saver would dim the screen when the battery would reach
about 20% or so in order to extend the remaining battery life. The Display settings I described above seem to imply this is meant to happen when Battery Saver Brightness is turned on.

Without this feature functioning properly I've noticed a significant decrease in battery life since updating to Windows 8.1.

 

Issue with Battery Saver: Screen Brightness

Hi AC44,

Thanks for posting!

Battery Saver doesn't include diming the screen, you can change this via;

Lower the brightness setting. In the App list, tap Settings >
Brightness, turn off Automatically adjust, and then select the
Level that you want to use instead. For more info, please have a look on the link below;

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/phones-and-hardware/battery-making-it-last

Thank you for your contributions to the forum!

Kind Regards,

 

Battery saver brigthness

I'm experiencing the same issue on the Lumia 1520 (AT&T) and 822 (Verizon). This is not limited to a small subset of handsets, evident by the discussions at
http://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-phone-8-1/304375-battery-saver-brightness-doesnt-work.html and

https://windowsphone.uservoice.com/forums/101801-feature-suggestions/suggestions/6721875-battery-saver-doesn-t-dim-brightness-turn-off-cap