How to turn off Automatic Brightness Adjustment in Mac OS X El Capitan
Description: This article will show how to turn off automatically adjusting the screen brightness in Mac OS X El Capitan. The Mac will detect what type of lighting is in the area and adjust the brightness settings accordingly. Turning off this feature allows the user to choose and keep a certain brightness at all times.
- From the Menu Bar, click the Apple icon and select System Preferences.
- Click Displays.
- Uncheck Automatically adjust brightness to turn it off. The brightness can then be manually adjusted using the slider.
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