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macos 10.15.1 boots with screen at full brightness

MacOS 10.15.1 - After installing, every time I reboot my iMac my screen is set to the maximum brightness. I can adjust it in system preferences, but I have my screen calibrated to a specific brightness for photography. I have "Automatically Set Screen Brightness" UNCHECKED so it shouldn't make any changes. Any ideas how to keep the brightness set where I had it when I shut down.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Nov 4, 2019 8:46 AM

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Posted on Jan 15, 2020 7:55 AM

iMac booting at full brightness - FIXED.


Thanks to Birkhoff92. This link (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295) tells how to reset the memory. In my case it was as easy as:

  1. Shut the computer down.
  2. Disconnect the power and wait 15 seconds.
  3. Reconnect the power and wait 10 second.

The computer does boot with the display appearing to go to full bright. However, as it continues to boot the brightness returns to where I had set it prior to shut down.


Hope this helps

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macos 10.15.1 boots with screen at full brightness

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