Automatic Adjust brightness and sunlight parallell to the screen = no good!

[matsan]

(Admittedly a first-world problem)
Finally getting some summer sun here in Northern Europe! We have reorganized the kitchen and I find myself often sitting at the counter-top with the MBP 16" M3 (2023). When the sun falls in from the window at a certain angle the screen goes completely dark. At first I thought the computer had crashed and forced a rebbot, but next time I noted a small hit of screen content. I then made a small adjustment of the position of the laptop and the screen slowly went back to normal.
After being annoyed with this multiple times I disabled "Automatically adjust brightness" under Displays and now live on the edge - this warning seems serious...!

Some kind of refraction in the sensor?

 

[dmccloud]

So the ambient light sensor is working as intended. The warning really isn't anything more than common knowledge in that screen brightness can have a massive impact on battery life regardless of device.

 

[snipper]

I found this thread trying to some a similar problem. I use a large monitor with my MacBook. I don't want to use the MacBook screen at the same time. I want it to be off. I set the screen brightness to zero. I set the 'Automatically adjust brightness' setting off.

Yet still the MacBook's build in screen brightness keeps being automatically increased. Very annoying.