Question Image retention/Burn in on IPS laptop screen

DwarvenKing

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Oct 11, 2014
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Hey everyone, I accidentally left my laptop (G14 2022) running YouTube since I fell asleep using it and it ran for maybe 2, 3 hours instead of going to sleep and when I woke up and turned it on I noticed this big smudge across the right side of the screen which, when I looked closer, contained elements of the browser that ran and a ghosted image of them. Is there any way at all to fix this? It's a 120Hz 14 inch IPS screen that I only recently purchased and I'd be devastated to learn that I've already caused permanent damage to it. I turned it off over night but I could do longer if it would do anything. I let it sit on a white screen over night and had tried numerous stuff yesterday from playing games like The Witcher 3 to some of those image retention fixing videos that change color (I'm a bit scared of those since it seems to me they try to burn the screen to make everything evenly burned and ruined). Any help would be appreciated I'm at my wit's end here.