Use this simple trick to stop your Mac from dimming the display automatically.

I keep getting emails from Demo Geek readers about one major annoyance with Mac’s, the display gets dimmed automatically after couple of minutes, way before the screensaver kicks-in. Of course, this feature is there to conserve power but on many instances we don’t want the display to dim automatically as we might be reading or watching something so there might not be any keyboard/mouse activity. So how do prevent our Mac’s from dimming the display automatically?

If you don’t mind running a little freeware like Caffeine that takes care of preventing your Mac from dimming the screen, by all means, go for it. With Caffeine you can even turn on and turn off this behavior which is kind of nice.

But if you do mind running a freeware just for this purpose you can use your Mac’s built-in settings to turn off this behavior.

Go to “System Preferences” > “Energy Saver“. Click on the “Power Adapter” tab. Scroll down to locate the “Automatically reduce the display brightness before display sleep” option and uncheck it.

You can do the same on the “Battery” tab as well but it would make more sense to leave the checkbox checked on the Battery tab because you do really want to conserve power as much as possible when you are operating with the battery. So I would leave that decision to you.

That’s all it would take to stop your Mac from automatically dimming the display. Use whatever method is convenient to you.