Screen brightnes

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Hi,
First posting!
I picked up my black S5 on Saturday but not driven it yet so it's too soon to post a review.
I've gone through the numerous set up menus without a problem except that the screen brightness is very dark. Makes the navigation screen almost unreadable. I tried to lighten it using the menu options by swiping down from the top of the screen but it doesn't seem to have an effect.
Is there a day/night time mode setting somewhere that I've missed? Or any other suggestion?
Cheers....
 
I've noticed the same - on my old MG5, it had an automatic setting where it switched into dark mode when the auto-headlights went on and that feature is sorely missed on the new MGS5. Perhaps MG will issue a software fix to add it?
 
There's a choice between light/dark themes available, and you can also independently set the brightness of the infotainment screen (swipe down from the top works well for me) and the cluster.

My only complaint is the cluster on max brightness still isn't very bright. I am pondering if a cowl would help, but shouldn't have to.
 
There's a choice between light/dark themes available, and you can also independently set the brightness of the infotainment screen (swipe down from the top works well for me) and the cluster.

My only complaint is the cluster on max brightness still isn't very bright. I am pondering if a cowl would help, but shouldn't have to.
Thanks for the reply. Please can you tell me where to select the light/dark themes. I've searched high and low!

I found the infotainment screen brightness slider on the swipe down changes the actual screen brightness but the navigation map brightness appears unaffected.
 
Under Settings on the General tab, just below Cluster Brightness, it's called System Theme.

I havent had an issue with the built-in nav brightness.
 
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