![]() My monitor has four buttons along the bottom, but they don’t adjust the brightness or contrast. Obviously, I could use my Dell monitor’s buttons, like some kind of animal, but as everyone knows: they’re terrible. Every tool that I could find needed DDC support, which is why none worked on M1-based Macs. ![]() The reason seems to be that M1-based Macs lack support for DDC or Display Data Channel, a standard set of control protocols that monitors have used for many years. I started digging deeper and realized I wasn’t alone: each of these tools had someone commenting that it did not work with M1-based Macs and it was not a problem that Rosetta could solve. However, owners of Intel-based Macs can use various command-line and graphical tools for this purpose, but none seemed to work on my M1-based Mac mini. Of course, that’s not a problem with Apple monitors like the older Thunderbolt Display, today’s insanely expensive Pro Display XDR, or the Apple-approved LG UltraFine monitors.įor reasons I don’t understand, macOS lacks built-in support for these settings when using a third-party display apart from the few models mentioned above. It turns out that Macs can’t necessarily control the brightness on external displays with built-in options. I assumed I’d be able to control the brightness on my monitor using the standard keys on a Mac keyboard or the brightness slider in System Preferences > Displays. This was my first time using a Mac mini with an external monitor as my primary computer. ![]() I tried again but to no avail.įor the past several years, I’ve used a series of MacBooks-a 12-inch MacBook, a MacBook Air, and a 16-inch MacBook Pro. I reached up and pressed the F1 key on my Magic Keyboard as I had done for as long as I could remember. ![]() Not long after I received my M1-based Mac mini, I was working late in the night and decided to decrease the brightness of my Dell monitor. Total Eclipse of the Mac: Lunar Controls Third-Party Displays #1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?.#1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution.#1686: Please support TidBITS, OS security updates, Apple services poll results, biking with an iPhone.#1687: Feature-rich OS updates, recovering from a crashing bug in Contacts, Zoom for Apple TV, how much do you use widgets?.#1688: Former Apple engineer on watchOS 10, Apple hardware testing tool, Stolen Device Protection, Apple Watch sales halted, smart TV privacy abuses.Please pardon my ignorance if this is quite well known in the community already, cheers. I then googled for an app and discovered the " Lunar" app, and I'm in total love with it (kudos to the one who made this awesome app!), managing the brightness/contrast controls is a breeze and integrated right into the keyboard keys (just like you control the MacBook brightness) and also has auto mode based on MacBook's light ambient sensor (and much more).īy the way, It's not a free app (14-day trial and you pay 18£ (in the UK that is) and please note that I'm not affiliated to the developer or app in any way - I sincerely found this app so well done and so useful, so thought I will share it with you guys. Unfortunately, the monitor brightness/contrast can be controlled only via the hardware buttons on the monitor (i.e., no integration with macOS), but then you can download the LG monitor control app which is poorly implemented and not so well done anyway. So, I got an LG 32UN880-B ("Ergo 4k") monitor this year that I mainly use with my MacBook Pro 2017 for work (a great monitor by the way if you're looking for one).
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