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points by wlesieutre 2 days ago | 0 comments

I doubt there's much difference because of the adaptive refresh rate, it runs at a lower rate most of the time and only uses 120 when it decides that would be useful.

But if you really don't want it, Settings > Accessibility > Motion > Limit Frame Rate will cap it at 60.

There's also an option to prefer page rendering updates near 60 hz buried in Safari's feature flags settings. This one defaults to on, presumably to protect the battery life from asshole web developers and advertisers.

[–] mahboi 2 days ago

If only they had an option to disable HDR to protect your eyes from advertisers

[–] wlesieutre 2 days ago

Agreed, I'd go for a setting where each page could have exactly one HDRed item

[–] mahboi 2 days ago

Yeah, that would be fair. Personally I just want it globally disabled, idc. But maybe there's 1 in 100 times I do care and can turn it on, that'd be nice.

Frustratingly, built in Mac displays kinda force enable it. You can at least reduce the max nits to be the same as max screen brightness, rather than the insane "XDR" default where HDR can go nearly 3x the max brightness. You can also make a custom color profile that disables HDR, but this disables the screen brightness controls, which isn't worth.