How to turn off auto brightness in Windows 11

Learn how to turn off auto brightness in Windows 11.

Auto brightness or automatic brightness is also known as adaptive brightness.

Steps

1. Right-click on the start menu button and then click on Settings. You can also press the Windows Windows key + I keys on your keyboard to open settings.

Open Windows 11 settings

2. Make sure you're in the System settings section.

Windows 11 System settings

3. Click on Display.

Windows 11 Display settings

4. In the “Brightness & colour” section, you click on Brightness or the drop-down icon next to the brightness slider.

Windows 11 brightness settings

5. Uncheck the Help improve the battery by optimizing the content shown and brightness option.

Help improve the battery by optimizing the content shown and brightness

6. If you see a Change brightness automatically when lighting changes option, uncheck it.

Auto brightness is now turned off.

7. You can now close the settings window.