Windows 10: Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10

How to: Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10

How to Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10


Displays (especially on laptops and tablets) may utilize ambient light sensors to detect surrounding levels of light.

The adaptive brightness feature in Windows monitors ambient light sensors to detect changes in ambient light and automatically adjust the display brightness as needed to match surrounding lighting conditions.

While adaptive brightness is useful to help save battery life, it may at times cause your display brightness level to be too dark.

This tutorial will show you different ways on how to enable or disable adaptive brightness in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Power Options
• Option Two: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt
• Option Three: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Specific Power Plan in Command Prompt
• Option Four: To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel

OPTION ONE [/i] To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Power Options

*note This option will affect all users that use the same power plan you set this for.
1. Open the advanced Power Options for your power plan.

2. In your current active power plan's (ex: High Performance) advanced settings, expand open Display and Enable adaptive brightness. (see screenshot below step 3)

3. Turn on or off Enable adaptive brightness for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Current Power Plan in Command Prompt
1. Open a command prompt.

2. Enter the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
(Enable - On battery)
Code:

OR

(Enable - Plugged in)
Code:

OR

(Disable - On battery)
Code:

OR

(Disable - Plugged in)
Code:

3. Enter the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter to apply the change. You can now close the command prompt if you like.
*Arrow powercfg -SetActive SCHEME_CURRENT







OPTION THREE [/i] To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness for Specific Power Plan in Command Prompt
1. Open a command prompt.

2. Enter the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter. Make note of the GUID number (ex: 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c) of the power plan you want to apply this to. (see screenshot below)

*note The power plan (ex: High performance) with a * to the right of it is your current active power plan scheme.
*Arrow powercfg /L




3. Enter the command below you want to use into the command prompt, and press Enter. (see screenshot below)
(On battery)
Code:

OR

(Plugged in)
Code:

Note Substitute GUID in the command above with the actual GUID from step 2 above for the power plan you want to apply this to.

Substitute Index in the command above with the number below for the default action you want set for adaptive brightness.

[table][tr][td]Index Number[/td] [td]Action[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]0[/td] [td]Disable[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]1[/td] [td]Enable[/td] [/tr] [/table]

For example: Set to "Enable" for the High performance power plan GUID (8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c)

Code:

4. Enter the command below into the command prompt, and press Enter to apply the change. You can now close the command prompt if you like. (see screenshot below)

*note This command will set the power plan for the GUID as your restart the computer to apply the changes instead of doing this step.
*Arrow powercfg -SetActive GUID

*note Substitute GUID in the command above with the same GUID from step 2 above for the power plan you want to apply this to.

For example: powercfg -SetActive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c









OPTION FOUR [/i] To Enable or Disable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel

*note If you have Intel graphics, then what you have set in the Intel HD Graphics and Media Control Panel may override what you have set in Windows Power Options.

If you do not have Intel graphics, then this option does not apply to you.
1. Right click or press and hold on your desktop, and click/tap on Intel Graphics Settings to open the Intel HD Graphics and Media Control Panel.

2. Click/tap on the Power icon. (see screenshot below)



3. Do step 4 (enable) or step 5 (disable) below for what you want.


4. To Enable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel
A) Select On Battery or Plugged in, and select the plan (ex: "Balanced Mode") for what you want to apply this to. (see screenshot below)

B) Select (check) Enable under Display Power Saving Technology, and adjust the slider to the level you want.

C) Click/tap on Apply, and go to step 6 below.




5. To Disable Adaptive Brightness in Intel HD Graphics Control Panel
A) Select On Battery or Plugged in, and select the plan (ex: "Balanced Mode") for what you want to apply this to. (see screenshot below)

B) Select (check) Disable under Display Power Saving Technology, and click/tap on Apply, and go to step 6 below.




6. Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (see screenshot below)

*note Your changes will automatically be reverted in 15 seconds if you do not click/tap on Yes to confirm.




That's it,
Shawn


Related Tutorials

• How to Adjust Screen Brightness in Windows 10
• How to Add or Remove 'Allow display required policy' from Power Options in Windows
• How to Add or Remove 'Adaptive backlight' from Power Options in Windows 10
• Add or Remove 'Enable adaptive brightness' from Power Options in Windows
• How to Turn On or Off Auto Adjust Video Based on Lighting in Windows 10

:)

 

How to disable adaptive brightness by default

Hi Mohsin,

If you're having issue with disabling the adaptive brightness, we suggest checking this
thread and follow the troubleshooting steps provided by Sagnik_Chakraborty
to troubleshoot the issue.

Let us know if you need further assistance.

 

How to disable adaptive brightness by default

I followed the steps listed in the linked thread, and still no change. I don't believe that the linked thread is dealing with the same issues that I am dealing with.

Furthermore, I do not understand why I would ever need to change registry settings, or restore default power settings. To be clear, this isn't a bug that is causing my brightness to be lower than it should, this is obviously an intended feature of
Windows to enable adaptive brightness so that the screen adapts in differently lit environments. Either I'm wrong, and this isn't an intended feature (in which case, why is it there at all), or I'm right and this is an intended feature, and my point
still stands: Why can't I disable adaptive brightness and leave it disabled permanently?

I'm quite disappointed that something as crucial as the brightness of one's screen is not implemented correctly. This should be fixed ASAP.

As for this thread and my concerns, I would still like to see if there is a solution that can be provided. Thank you.

 

Adaptive brightness automatically enables

Thanks for your reply but I already have stated that "One thing that I noticed is that after every startup adaptive brightness settings automatically enables (I tried to change it through advanced
power option and also from services using services.msc in the run)".

Kindly let me know why it automatically enables after every reboot and how to resolve this issue.

 

How to Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10

Hi,

There many articles on "How to Disable Adaptive Brightness in Windows 10"

Control Panel -> Power Options -> Change plan settings -> Change advanced power settings -> Display ->
Enable adaptive brightness.

But my Windows 10 doesn't have an option "Enable adaptive brightness".

Screenshot attached.

 

PSA Windows 10 + Adaptive Voltage/Offset voltage and you

I have speed step and all the other power saving option enabled.

So now after setting the system power profile, disable fast boot in uefi, disable hybrid sleep in windows 10 my system has been BSOD free.