Question Opening the Windows 10 notifications panel gives my display a blue tint

[ComputersOftenIrritateMe]

I've noticed that, upon opening the notifications panel at the bottom right of my display, the screen takes on a noticeably bluer tint.

Once I restart, this seems to go away until I again open the notification panel. I don't have night light on, since that seems to be a common suggestion for things like this. I also updated my GPU drivers, but to no effect.

I've gone through a lot of effort to get my display calibrated, so it really irritates me that there's some unseen process in Windows that's automatically changing this.

 

[Ralston18]

Right-click the notification box/area in the lower right screen area with time and date.

A pop-up windows should appear with an option "Notifications settings".

Select that option and take a close look at the many options available.

Use the > to look at the details regarding any option be the option on or off.

Explore first but do not immediately change anything.

Keep notes and then go back as applicable and try options that seem viable. Change only one thing at a time. Be sure to write down what was changed, where it was changes, plus the original and new value.

Just in case a "do over" is needed.

 

[ComputersOftenIrritateMe]

Right-click the notification box/area in the lower right screen area with time and date.

A pop-up windows should appear with an option "Notifications settings".

Select that option and take a close look at the many options available.

Use the > to look at the details regarding any option be the option on or off.

Explore first but do not immediately change anything.

Keep notes and then go back as applicable and try options that seem viable. Change only one thing at a time. Be sure to write down what was changed, where it was changes, plus the original and new value.

Just in case a "do over" is needed.

It doesn't seem to be giving me the option for "notification settings", just the following:

-Open Action Center
-Focus Assist
-Don't Show App Icons
-Don't Show Number of New Notifications


I also tried right clicking the time/date next to it but saw nothing

 

[Ralston18]

You may have to drill down into the offered options.

(I do not have Windows 10 and cannot suggest a specific path or option therein.)

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Left click in the oval search box (lower left screen)

In "Type to search here" that is presented type "Notifications and Actions" if not already shown/listed.

Otherwise I will need to defer to a current Windows 10 user and any possible Notification options available in Windows 10.

 

[ComputersOftenIrritateMe]

A few thing's I've found so far:

-It doesn't matter which display is set to be the primary one (for reference, I am using an external monitor connected to my laptop. The external monitor is the calibrated one, with it's own icc profile)

-Only the external monitor seems to experience this change, with the laptop display appearing unphased.

-Turning off the monitor, unplugging it's HDMI, etc. don't seem to fix the tint. The only thing that makes it go away is an actual restart of windows.

I suspect the issue is separate from icc profiles in the sense that it is instead happening 'on top' of those profiles' corrections, seeing as I can swap between profiles and still have the blue tint once I switch back.

 

[ComputersOftenIrritateMe]

I have seen this issue mentioned in a few threads online before, but haven't found any actual answers. Sounds like it's been a thing for several years.

I should mention that my screen similarly changed tone when I selected "adjust strength of adaptive color" from the windows setting search box. Thing is, clicking that just brings me to the regular display settings, where there is no options for adaptive color. It just changes my screens tone and nothing else.

Refreshing my GPU driver doesn't seem to have changed anything.