tb MBP 2016 screen not much brighter

[mbp2016w]

Hi there,

Just wondering if your screen are similar. For my screen to be as bright as my 2013 MBA, I have to put it at around 1 or 2 dots from the max: it just seems dull lower than that and I see a lot of people talking about going 60%-70% of brightness. Are your screen similar to my case or really brighter than before?

Also, the increase doesn't seem to be linear: going from 40% to 60% doesn't increase the brightness by much but 90% to 100% is a huge jump?

Thanks

 

[white7561]

Auto brightness turned on i guess?

 

[mbp2016w]

Auto brightness turned on i guess?

Just turned it off. It still seems dull from 60 to 80%.

 

[white7561]

Just turned it off. It still seems dull from 60 to 80%.

Umm. Strange... It should be better than the old display

 

[Brookzy]

A few things are going on here, to optimise battery life, and keep brightness proportionate to the ambient conditions:

• The brightness scale is now logarithmic. A one-notch jump at high brightness levels will cause a greater increase in brightness than a one-notch jump at low brightness levels.
• The brightness scale is relative to the ambient brightness. In darker conditions, this allows more fine-tuning of your preferred screen brightness - the exception is that 100% stays at 100%, hence the jump you are seeing from 90% to 100%.
• 100% isn't really maximum brightness: much like iPhone 7, the "boost" brightness (from 300 to 500 nits) is not user-adjusted but instead is automatic for situations like direct sunlight. 500 nits is positively blinding in a dimly-lit room. Thus you can only achieve peak brightness with automatically adjust brightness turned on, and when in direct sunlight (or equivalent).

 

[mbp2016w]

A few things are going on here, to optimise battery life, and keep brightness proportionate to the ambient conditions:

• The brightness scale is now logarithmic. A one-notch jump at high brightness levels will cause a greater increase in brightness than a one-notch jump at low brightness levels.
• The brightness scale is relative to the ambient brightness. In darker conditions, this allows more fine-tuning of your preferred screen brightness - the exception is that 100% stays at 100%, hence the jump you are seeing from 90% to 100%.
• 100% isn't really maximum brightness: much like iPhone 7, the "boost" brightness (from 300 to 500 nits) is not user-adjusted but instead is automatic for situations like direct sunlight. 500 nits is positively blinding in a dimly-lit room. Thus you can only achieve peak brightness with automatically adjust brightness turned on, and when in direct sunlight (or equivalent).

Thanks!

 

[HiFiGuy528]

A few things are going on here, to optimise battery life, and keep brightness proportionate to the ambient conditions:

• The brightness scale is now logarithmic. A one-notch jump at high brightness levels will cause a greater increase in brightness than a one-notch jump at low brightness levels.
• The brightness scale is relative to the ambient brightness. In darker conditions, this allows more fine-tuning of your preferred screen brightness - the exception is that 100% stays at 100%, hence the jump you are seeing from 90% to 100%.
• 100% isn't really maximum brightness: much like iPhone 7, the "boost" brightness (from 300 to 500 nits) is not user-adjusted but instead is automatic for situations like direct sunlight. 500 nits is positively blinding in a dimly-lit room. Thus you can only achieve peak brightness with automatically adjust brightness turned on, and when in direct sunlight (or equivalent).

Interesting... does this apply to the LG 4K Ultrafine Display? I have it and it looks really bright at max. setting, but I am not sure if it is truly 500 nits at that setting. Would you know?

 

[Brookzy]

Interesting... does this apply to the LG 4K Ultrafine Display? I have it and it looks really bright at max. setting, but I am not sure if it is truly 500 nits at that setting. Would you know?

It shouldn't apply to the LG displays yet because their ambient light sensors are (still!) not enabled by macOS. In other words, 100% brightness should be ~500 nits on the LG UltraFine 4K and 5K. This may change with a macOS update (or may have already changed in High Sierra - I've not tested that yet).