Netflix Brightness
I’ve had a 9a for a few days now (Android 16 — fully up to date, April patches afaik).
Is anyone else having this issue?? The Netflix app sets the screen brightness to an unbearable level in fullscreen — at least if you’re trying to watch in a completely dark room. However, as soon as I switch to picture-in-picture mode, the normal system brightness controls work again and I can make the screen significantly darker. (And yes, the in-app brightness slider is already set to the minimum.)
I’ve spent a few hours researching and trying different things, but none of the solutions I found helped. But I also couldn’t really find anything recent about this for Pixels during my research. I also noticed that this “brightness override” seems to be interpreted very differently depending on the device manufacturer… apparently there are also many cases where Netflix ends up being too dark instead.
Is this behaviour normal on Pixels? Do people just hope for the next update to fix it?
Would love to hear about your experiences with this. <3