Do you use submaximal brightness?

[rmadsen3]

There's plenty discussion about screen brightness affecting battery life. There's plenty persons who say max brightness is too bright. Here's a question for those persons who say max brightness is too bright: Do you use dark mode usually? Or no?

My guess is no.

I use dark mode usually. I don't find max brightness to be *too* bright, although I do think mid brightness, on latest devices, is bright enough.

 

[jdb8167]

On the Apple silicon MacBook Airs you are reducing your battery run time by many hours if you run at max brightness. 50% is still plenty bright.

 

[rm5]

I run mine at 50% brightness all the time—I never need to max it out. And I use dark mode most of the time.

 

[Technerd108]

I use about 75% brightness and it doesn't seem to affect battery life too much. I still get two to three days of pretty heavy use which I consider excellent.

I don't use dark mode.

 

[rmadsen3]

Frinedly request: Please specify light mode or dark mode. i'm curious whether or not those who do submaximal brightness tend to use light mode.

 

[Pakaku]

40%-50% brightness on dark-mode for the most part. I prefer a light Finder window and a dark menubar, so there's a terminal command I used for that. I would strongly prefer a "66% dark grey" mode, though, like the old Final Cut Pro 7. I find regular dark modes are too high contrast and my eyes get lost after a while, hence the light Finder.