New Auto-dimming Bad For Older Drivers

[CarterStC]

The latest update brings adjustments to the screen and cabin dimming. The development group must be a bunch of kids, because when it drops to 15%, I can barely see the screen and it is even difficult to find the setting to adjust the brightness back up since it is so dark. Tesla - consider your audience, not just yourselves.

 

[Hank101]

Just got the update, and completely agree with you, this can't be right. It dims to a uselessly dark level.

 

[SabrToothSqrl]

On the other hand, it's way to freaking bright. You can also disable this... not sure if you are aware.

 

[turnem]

I'm not even very old and I agree completely. However - you CAN still ramp up the brightness if you go into the settings. I think (but haven't confirmed) that once you change the base brightness level it will vary itself from there.

Need more time with it. But for now - go into the display settings and drag the brightness slide up a little.

 

[srs5694]

In another thread, it was suggested that rebooting the headend fixes this problem. (My car is still on 2019.16.2, so I'm just relaying what I've read.)

 

[Big Earl]

It should remember your setting. Wait for it to get dark, then turn it up to whatever level you're comfortable with. I run ours between 1% and 3% at night and have no issues, but I'm just a youngster in his late 30s.

Edit: I'm also still on 2019.16.2, so I'm not sure what changes they made with 2019.20.

 

[Eno Deb]

The latest update brings adjustments to the screen and cabin dimming. The development group must be a bunch of kids, because when it drops to 15%, I can barely see the screen and it is even difficult to find the setting to adjust the brightness back up since it is so dark. Tesla - consider your audience, not just yourselves.

It's not you. They screwed it up. When in "auto", it's way too dark now. You can adjust the value, but it goes dim again the next time you start the car. For now, disable "auto" and set a manual brightness. I also tried the reset that some have suggested and will see if it helps later today when it gets dark.

 

[Eugr]

Just reboot, When I saw it going too dark, I suspected that it was getting incorrect reading from ambient light sensors. The reboot probably reset the sensors (or their interface) and it immediately went back to 50% in my garage without me making any adjustments.

 

[CarterStC]

Just reboot, When I saw it going too dark, I suspected that it was getting incorrect reading from ambient light sensors. The reboot probably reset the sensors (or their interface) and it immediately went back to 50% in my garage without me making any adjustments.

I noticed the problem after doing my obligatory reboot after the update installed...

 

[Eugr]

I noticed the problem after doing my obligatory reboot after the update installed...

Weird, it got back to normal after I rebooted it. We'll see how it behaves this evening...