Control the Glowing Apple Logo on Your New MacBook Pro
Once a common sight in lecture theaters and coffee shops everywhere, the glowing emblem of an Apple logo featured on the lids of many Mac laptops launched in the early 2000s. In a nice touch, the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with PROLED XDR displays bring back the much-loved logo. It's lit up whenever the Mac is awake, and it automatically dims or brightens based on your screen's…
The glowing Apple logo on Apple's 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro laptops with PROLED XDR displays will once again illuminate when the machine is in use, adjusting its brightness level to match both the screen's illumination and the ambient light in the room. However, users can easily turn off the logo illumination if desired. To do so, open the Terminal application and enter the command "sudo defaults write com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode -int 0".
Upon entering the password and pressing Enter, the logo should immediately turn off without requiring a restart. This setting affects all users on the Mac and persists even after a restart from macOS Recovery. If the MacBook Pro is replaced, the setting transfers to the new device. To enable the glowing logo again, simply enter the command "sudo defaults delete com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode" in Terminal.
The illuminated logo first appeared on the third-generation PowerBook G3 in 1999, a design choice that remained unchanged for 16 years despite Apple's design team noticing that users often tried to open their laptops from the wrong side. Steve Jobs, known for prioritizing user experience, suggested that it was better to satisfy the user than the onlooker, a perspective he later reversed.
Apple discontinued the lit logo on its laptops in 2015, but now, with the return of the PROLED XDR displays, the glowing Apple logo is making a comeback.
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