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brightness control

  1. N

    Brightness is lower with 8 watch

    my older Apple Watch 5 is brighter than new Apple Watch 8. Is this an expected problem? I tried to fix, but doesn’t change much. Is turns off too fast too. Please help.
  2. M

    iPhone 14 Pro iPhone 14 Pro 2000 nits

    So how do I actually push the brightness to its max of 2000nits? Yes the slider is up😏) (Seems to me it‘s just as bright as the any other iPhone…)
  3. Michael.S

    Screen brightness changed after update to High Sierra on A1261

    Hi, I have recently acquired a MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2008) 2,5 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 512 MB and have been running El Capitan but just switched to High Sierra using dosdude1's patcher. I have the impression that the screen brightness has...
  4. L

    Studio Display brightness control issues

    I noticed it is possible to control display Brightness only when using the default Apple Display (600 nits) color gamut profile/preset. When using any other presets, for instance P3-DCI, P3-D65, the brightness control is grayed out. In the P3-DCI the display is very dark, barely visible what is...
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    Install previous Big Sur version

    Hi, is there a way to install a previous release of Big Sur, e.g. 11.2? Just for info, I would like to do it because of the display brightness issue in older MacBooks (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/can-no-longer-adjust-brightness-after-update.2315102/). It looks like the issue was...
  6. Menopause

    Cannot control brightness of LG UltraFine 5K after wake

    Hi guys, I'm on a MacBook Pro 16" (2019) running macOS 10.15.4 Catalina. It's connected to an LG UltraFine 5K Monitor purchased directly from Apple in November 2019. I've had the problem consistently over the past months that whenever my Mac goes to sleep and wakes up, I cannot control the...
  7. MatthewNetterville

    2014 MacBook Pro brightness controls not working, replace screen firmware chip

    Hi guys, I have a 2014 Macbook pro which has had its screen replaced. The brightness controls have now stopped working after I reinstalled MacOS from El Capitan too Mojave. I know there is a way to fix this by replacing the screen firmware chip to the correct one, suppose to be the E1 chip...
  8. MarckyG

    Cinema Display and Thunderbolt Display brightness control

    Hey all, I recently got a new iMac and it came with High Sierra installed. Previously I was on Sierra. I use it combined with a Thunderbolt Display from Apple (damn... the difference in display quality...). What's new to me is... the display brightness control doesn't work as it used to. I...