Night light off after screen wakes from sleep

Anonymous
2020-07-10T09:45:05+00:00

I have the issue that night light is always off when my screen comes back from a (blank) screen saver or the PC wakes from sleep. This has been mentioned several times but the recommended solutions do no address this issue but the issue that night light is not working at all. So to clarify, night light is working, it is just off when the screen comes back from screen saver. If I then check the night light setting, it is enabled and the slider is in the correct position but I need to briefly click on the slider for the feature to actually come on again. This is rather annoying as I often work at night and need to do this several times a day then.

Is there a solution for this? And again, please do not post any links on "how to fix night light not working" because it is working. It is simply off after waking from screen saver.

BTW I am on an HP ZBOOK 15 G2 laptop with NVIDIA Quadro 1100M and Intel HD 4600 (which Windows has stopped with Code 43 - I tried many things including the usual driver roll-back/update/removing hardware and letting it autodetect again etc, but have not been able to resolved it, so I assume that the system uses the NVIDIA card only - on the latest drivers). I run WIN 10 Pro, ver 2004 and am using an external monitor AOC Q3277.

Thank you.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-23T23:25:26+00:00

    Yup, same irritating problem

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-23T01:25:40+00:00

    I have the same issue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-18T06:25:04+00:00

    I have the same problem on my Surface Pro 7, and it's really really annoying. In fact, I have two problems with the night light feature. 

    1. If the night light mode is on, and my Surface goes to sleep, Night light will be off when I wake it, but the toggle is still in the 'on' status. I have to toggle if off and on again to re-activate it. 
    2. Night light doesn't turn off as scheduled. I have my night light scheduled to turn on at 11:30pm, and turn off at 9am the next day. It turns on as scheduled at 11:30pm. When I go to bed at midnight, I shut down the Surface. When I wake up and boot up the Surface after 9am, I expect the night light to be off. However, it remains on. Again I have to toggle the setting on and off to fix it. 

    I reinstalled my graphics drivers and am on the latest windows updates, but neither have resolved this. 

    I don't understand how this basic functionality hasn't been fixed yet. These are simple, obvious use cases, and it's clearly occurring across many devices. Do Microsoft employees even use their own products? Do they even read these posts?

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-11T07:32:21+00:00

    Can confirm - "f.lux" (available on the Windows App store) works perfectly and provides the needed functionality. And it's free.

    So, if you don't want to wait for Microsoft to sort this out, you've got a solution.

    Good luck!

    But f.lux asks for access to your entire file system and scans your configuration sending the information back to them (check their privacy statement). This is not right for me.

    Instead of installing 3rd party, we need Microsoft to fix the problem.

    It is still broken. I am running 19042.906.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-04-09T15:17:55+00:00

    Can confirm - "f.lux" (available on the Windows App store) works perfectly and provides the needed functionality. And it's free.

    So, if you don't want to wait for Microsoft to sort this out, you've got a solution.

    Good luck!

    This problem has been plaguing me for months. I've also gone back to f.lux

    Windows 10 Pro 20H2 19042.906 fully up to date

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