My screen is milky

Thanks for your explanation.

In my macs I have a desktop picture, while starting up after the grey and just before I login, the desktop picture is "blurred", then snaps back to "normal" after I sign in. This happens since El Capitan. Is that what you describe?

Come back when it comes back (or does not go away).

We are interested in the results.

Lex

I do not know what you mean by "milky".

What most people had to do after installing Yosemite and certainly after installing ElCapitan is change some settings in Accessibility:

SystemPreferences->Accessibility->Display see picture.

It helps somewhat, but the SystemFont and the flatness can not be changed, the contrast setting (arrow2) will detiorate when moved to the right, contrary to what you would expect....

Well not sure if milky means kind of washed out and faded? But my 2014 Macbook Air appears that way after upgrading. I'm really not liking it (El Capitan) so I am looking at going back to Yosemite. The washed out appearance is harder on my 50 something eyes. I guess maybe the font is a problem too? Everything appears sharp but its just washed out.

I have been experiencing the exact same issue on a 2013 15" Macbook Pro since upgrading to El Capitan - and sure enough, disabling the automatic brightness adjust did the trick. Thanks. Also 'milky' is the perfect description of how the screen looks.

I recently update my 2012 Macbook air 13' to El Capitan and habe now the same problem.

When turning on, the screen has a milky sheen lacking it's usual brightness.

When I reboot, then normally the second time things get normal again. However, I really

hate this and hope that this is a soft problem that can be fixed and not a hard one announcing

the death of my screen.

Did you try disabling "Automatically adjust brightness" in System Preferences>Display as the others had? It seemed to help them.

Also, the MacBook Air display is very sensitive about the viewing angle so you may want to try adjusting the angle of the display.

what is milky: it is like a thin fine gray veil over the entire screen. No contrast changes in the preferences help there.

It happens when I boot the system. And stays, no matter what I do to the monitor options (I will now try if the automatic brightness helps, as I had not tried this yet).

When I reboot, eventuelly the screen will be fine and stays fine.

I thought that this is my monitor announcing its decline, but then I read that some others experience the same, in connection with the update to ELC.

Thanks for caring.

I had the same experience as you did. By deselecting "automatically adjust brightness", my MacBook Air's LCD produces more accurate color and is less washed-out. Thank you very much for your suggestion!

I just found this advise. Until now I just rebooted until the screen was ok again. But I have disabled this option now and I have to watch what happens in the future.

Thanks for your explanation. Come back when it comes back (or does not go away).

We are interested in the results.

Lex

Perfect fix! Thanks