System Turn On or Off Night Light in Windows 11


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This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off night light for your account in Windows 11.

Your display emits blue light—the kind of light you see during the day—which can keep you up at night. To help you get to sleep, turn on the night light and your display will show warmer colors at night that are easier on your eyes.

The night light strength level is for the color temperature in Kelvin. You can set a strength level between 0 (6500K) to 100 (1200K) for whatever is comfortable to your eyes.

You can turn on Schedule night light. Then, either select Sunset to sunrise, or select Set hours and enter custom times for the night light to automatically turn on and off.


Night light isn't available if your device uses certain drivers (DisplayLink or Basic Display).

Night Light settings are stored in the registry keys below for the current user.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\DefaultAccount\Current\default$windows.data.bluelightreduction.bluelightreductionstate

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CloudStore\Store\DefaultAccount\Current\default$windows.data.bluelightreduction.settings


The Night Light feature requires the Connected Devices Platform Service to be enabled, running, and set to automatic.



Contents





Option One

Turn On or Off Night Light in Quick Settings


1 Open Quick Settings (Win+A).

2 Click/tap on the Night light quick setting button to toggle on or off (default) for what you want. (see screenshots below)

Night_light_Quick_Settings-2.png
Night_light_Quick_Settings-1.png





Option Two

Turn On or Off Night Light in Settings


1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Display on the right side. (see screenshot below)


Night_light_Settings-1.png

3 Turn On or Off (default) Night light for what you want. (see screenshot below)

Night_light_Settings-2.png

4 You can now close Settings if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink


 
Last edited:
@Brink
Hi Shawn
After the 22H2 updates KB5017389 preview and KB5017271 net I no longer can activate Night Light and it crashes when trying it (see attached). I deleted the reg keys you mention above without results (I put the 2 reg keys back). The issue has been reported by others on the web: Other reports on the web
I will also send a feedback to MS about this, any suggestions?
Thanks
Frank
 

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@Brink
Hi Shawn
After the 22H2 updates KB5017389 preview and KB5017271 net I no longer can activate Night Light and it crashes when trying it (see attached). I deleted the reg keys you mention above without results (I put the 2 reg keys back). The issue has been reported by others on the web: Other reports on the web
I will also send a feedback to MS about this, any suggestions?
Thanks
Frank

Hello Frank, :-)

It appears to be a bug in that build. Hopefully, it will get sorted in the next update.
 

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Hello Frank, :-)

It appears to be a bug in that build. Hopefully, it will get sorted in the next update.
Thanks Shawn,
I was about to reinstall my Intel display driver debacle again but now agree that it is probably due to a bug in the last update, also getting a lot more event errors (Kernel Tracing, etc.) in 22H2 like with the W10 earlier versions, looks like we are going back in time (instead of progress) :rolleyes:
 

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@Brink
Hi Shawn
I solved my Night Light crashing: Nothing to do with Windows updates, I found that I disabled Connected Devices Platform Service and that disables also (crashes) Night Light (SettingsHandlers_Display.dll). It is working now.
Frank
 

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    RealTek + Intel Smart Sound and Nvidia HD Audio
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    IPS 16", AR16:10,
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    SK Hynix 512GB PCIe NVMe Gen4x4 M.2 2280 SSD
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    Power adapter Delta 230W, 4-cell 90 Wh Li-Ion battery
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    Polycarbonate with a metal panel lid
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    US RGB white keys
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    Precision Trackpad
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    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
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    Wi-Fi 6 AX 1650i, Gigabit Ethernet, Network (RJ-45) port
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    Manufacturer/Model
    Asus Vivobook K3502Z S15 15" OLED
    CPU
    Intel 12th Gen. i7 12700H, 14 cores, 2.3 GHz (24M Cache, up to 4.7 GHz, 6P+8E cores)
    Motherboard
    Alder Lake-H, 1700-4700 MHz clock rate
    Memory
    8GB LPDDR4 on board + 8GB LPDDR4 3200 MHz in Dual Channel.
    Graphics card(s)
    Intel Iris Xe supports up to 4096 x 2304 @ 120Hz
    Sound Card
    Harman Kardon - DTS
    Monitor(s) Displays
    OLED 15.6inch 2.8K (2880 x 1620)
    Screen Resolution
    16:9 aspect ratio 0.2ms response time 120Hz refresh rate, 550nits
    Hard Drives
    512GB M.2 NVMe Gen4 PCIe 4.0 SSD, Micron_2450_MTFDKBA512TFK
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    90-Watt USB charger (Thunderbolt4)
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    Precision Trackpad
    Keyboard
    With adjustable backlight
    Internet Speed
    ISP provides 15 mb/s WIFI LTE (4G), laptop WIFI 6 adapter.
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Windows Defender
    Other Info
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