diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b5fba3cb99..3f9dbda1db 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ CHANGES WITH 260 in spe:
           SYSTEMD_COLORS=256, and SYSTEMD_COLORS=24bit respectively when output
           is to a non-dumb TTY, and like SYSTEMD_COLORS=no otherwise.
 
+        * Minimum backlight brightness clamp for restoring it at boot has been
+          lowered from 5% to 1%. This is a safe change allowing more chance to
+          user environments to set lower values that won't be set higher at boot
+          while still giving the chance to recover from blackouts because
+          excesive lower bright values by just rebooting. Notice that if your
+          enviroment allow you to set excesive low brightness values this has
+          nothing to do with systemd's brightness clamp.
+
 CHANGES WITH 259:
 
         Announcements of Future Feature Removals and Incompatible Changes:
diff --git a/src/backlight/backlight.c b/src/backlight/backlight.c
index 86994412dc..0ef362813f 100644
--- a/src/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/src/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ static int shall_clamp(sd_device *device, unsigned *ret) {
                 return r;
         if (r > 0) {
                 property = "ID_BACKLIGHT_CLAMP";
-                default_percent = 5;
+                default_percent = 1;
         } else {
                 property = "ID_LEDS_CLAMP";
                 default_percent = 0;