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Question
How to turn on or off automatically screen brightness on Microsoft Surface?
Answer
All Microsoft Surface devices come with an ambient light sensor for detecting your current environment brightness in order to adjust the Surface screen brightness to an optimal brightness automatically. In case you want to turn on or turn off this feature:
Note This procedure will affect your built-in Surface display only, while the connected external displays required their own solution for auto screen brightness.
- Go to Start > Settings.
First, you need to access Windows Settings by going to Start and click the Gear icon (or by using Win + I shortcut key).
- Go to System.
In Windows Settings, select “System“.
- Go to Display.
- Toggle the “Change brightness automatically when lighting changes” switch to “On” or “Off” to enable or disable auto screen brightness on your Surface.
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Hi!
I have a Surface Laptop 4 and it seems to adjust the brightness depending on what is displayed, for example a white background will trigger it to turn it down, and a darker background will trigg the opposite.
This is independent of how I set the “Auto brightness”, which it should be since this setting is supposed to adjust depending on the surrounding lighting.
Is there a separate setting for the monitors brightness auto adjustment? Or is this a manufacturing issue?
It’s kind of irritating if I set the brightness to 70% and the brightness goes up and down when opening different applications in Windows.
Hoping for your help!
/BR Oscar