All screen brightness adjustment options in Windows 11

The brightness of a PC screen is an aspect that should not be neglected. In fact, it can have a very important impact on the visual health of the user, as well as the energy performance of the device. In this article we are going to analyze the options of adjusting screen brightness in Windows 11.

In general, this is something that many people only care about from a visibility and color. Both lack and excess of brightness make the details blurred and difficult to appreciate by the human eye. That results in a poor user experience.

Yes, image quality is important. However, that is what should worry us least. The worst of all are the negative effects on our eye health. That is why it is worth paying attention to this matter.

Reasons to correctly adjust the screen brightness in Windows 11

Correctly adjusting the screen brightness can generate many benefits and save us some problems. We explain it below:

Health reasons

Too high or too low brightness can cause visual fatigue, forcing our eyes to make additional effort that sometimes results in discomfort and headaches.

On the other hand, the call blue light (which is part of the natural light spectrum) can influence circadian rhythms, negatively affecting the quality of sleep.

It has also been shown that when the brightness is out of adjustment, our capacity of concentration is affected.

Efficiency reasons

Beyond the light, not adjusting the screen brightness correctly in Windows 11 affects battery life: Excessive brightness means higher consumption, especially in the case of laptops.

Furthermore, the higher the brightness level, the more the heat generated by the screen increases, which in the long term generates greater device wear.

Adjust screen brightness in Windows 11

There are several ways to make these types of brightness adjustments in Windows 11. We review them all in the following paragraphs:

From the Windows settings menu

This is a very simple and effective method to control the brightness of Windows 11. This menu is a powerful integrated tool that allows us to customize all kinds of parameters. In this case at hand, this is what we should do:

1. To open the Settings menu, pFirst we use the key combination Windows + I
2. Then we go to the section System and there we select the option Screen.
3. On the new screen, under the legend "Brightness and color", there is a slider that we can move to the right to increase the brightness and to the left to decrease it.

From the Windows Mobility Center

Another way to manually adjust the screen brightness of our Windows 11 PC is through the Windows Mobility Center. This is how you do it:

1. To start, we use the key combination Windows + X.
2. On the next screen we click on Mobility center.
3. After this, a Screen Brightness slider that we can adjust to the level that best suits us according to our needs and preferences.

With Battery Saver function

As we know, one of the advantages of reducing the brightness of the screen is that it also reduces the battery consumption of the laptop. In this sense, Windows 11 has a battery saving function which, among other things, acts by automatically limiting brightness. This is how we can activate it:

1. First we use the keyboard shortcut Windows + I to open the menu Windows settings.
2. Then we will System.
3. Then we select Power and battery.
4. In this section, we click on Battery saving.
5. In the menu that appears, we activate the option "Activate battery saver automatically", indicating the desired value.
6. To finish, we inhabit the option «Reduce screen brightness when using battery saver».

Adjust brightness using keyboard (laptop)

On the keyboard of our laptop we also have some tricks that we can use to increase or decrease the brightness of the screen. The keys that interest us are located in the top row. Those of brightness are usually represented by sun shaped icons. One key is used to increase that brightness and another to reduce it.

Adjust monitor brightness (desktop computer)

The aforementioned keys do not usually appear on desktop computer keyboards, so brightness management must be done through a series of buttons that we will find on the monitor itself. Likewise, there will be one that will help us increase the brightness of the screen and another that we can use to reduce it.