What is causing the adaptive brightness feature to remain ON?
We’ve investigated this particular issue by looking at various user reports and the repair strategies that are commonly being used to fix this particular issue and finally stop the screen brightness from changing dynamically. As it turns out, there are several different potential culprits that might end up triggering this particular issue: If you’re struggling to resolve this particular issue, this article will provide you with several different troubleshooting steps. Down below, you’ll discover several different methods that other affected users have successfully used in order to fix this particular problem. Since the potential fixes are ordered by efficiency and difficulty, we advise you to follow them in the order that they are presented to improve your chances of success. Let’s begin!
Method 1: Ensuring that the Adaptive Brightness feature is turned Off
First things first, it’s important to start this troubleshooting quest by making sure that adaptive brightness is actually turned off from inside the Power options menu. Even if you previously turned it off, you might have since switched to a different power plan that enabled the feature once again. Here’s a quick guide on ensuring that adaptive brightness is turned off from the Power Options menu: If the same issue is still occurring and you still find that the screen brightness is adjusting automatically, move down to the next method below.
Method 2: Disabling “Display Power Saving Technology” (Intel GPUs only)
If you’re using an integrated GPU from Intel, chances are the graphics card driver is overriding your Windows setting. So instead of listening to your setting that you established and keeping the adaptive screen brightness feature to off, Intel’s GPU uses it’s own utility (Intel Graphics and Media) to adjust the screen brightness automatically using a feature called Display Power Saving Technology. If this scenario is applicable to your current situation, here’s a quick guide on disabling Intel’s power saving technology: If you’re still encountering the same issue and you see the screen continuing to adjust automatically, move down to the next method below.
Method 3: Disabling Contrast Enhancement and Film Mode Selection
Several affected users have reported that the issue was resolved after they’ve accessed the Intel’s Graphics control panel and disabled two image enhancement features – Contrast Enhancement and Film Mode Selection. After doing this and restarting their computer, the majority of affected users have reported that their screen brightness was no longer adjusting automatically. If this scenario is applicable to your current situation, here’s a quick guide on disabling the two image enhancement features: If you’re still noticing that your screen brightness is automatically adjusting, move down to the next method below.
Method 4: Disabling Vari-Bright (Radeon GPUs only)
If you’re using an AMD Radeon GPU with and you’ve ensured that adaptive brightness is disabled from your Power Plan settings, chances are the issue is caused by a proprietary AMD featured called Vari-Bright. As some users have reported, this feature has the potential of overriding the Windows preference and adjust the screen brightness automatically even if you’ve made sure that the Windows-equivalent feature is disabled. If this scenario is applicable and you’re using a Radeon GPU, here’s a quick guide on disabling Vari-Bright:
Method 5: Disabling Adaptive brightness via Registry Editor
If you’ve come this far without a result, chances are your computer has a registry key that keeps overriding whatever change you’re trying to enforce regarding adaptive brightness. If you’re not afraid to edit the registry, there is one way that will ensure that adaptive brightness settings are disabled via a registry key: As long as you follow the instructions below to the letter and don’t modify anything else, the procedure below doesn’t have any kind of risk. Here’s a quick guide on disabling adaptive brightness via Registry Editor: If you’re still encountering the same problem, move down to the next method below.
Method 6: Disabling the Sensor Monitoring Service (if applicable)
Some affected users have reportedly managed to resolve the issue by using the Services screen to permanently disable the Sensor Monitoring Service. As of now, the issue has only been confirmed to be effective on Surface 4 devices. If this scenario is applicable to your current situation, here’s a quick guide on how to disable the Sensor Monitoring Service: If the issue is still occurring, move down to the next method below.
Method 7: Re-enabling the Integrated card
Some affected users have reported that the issue was only fixed after they accessed the Device Manager and re-enabled the integrated GPU card. This method is typically reported to be effective in those situations where the computer is equipped with Intel HD 4000 and Intel HD 3000 integrated GPUs. Here’s a quick guide on how to re-enable the integrated Graphics card via Device Manager:
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