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'Backglow' Lets You Customize New MacBook Pro's Glowing Apple Logo
MacRumors • • technology
Key Points:
- Designer Juan Buis has created a free app called "Backglow" that allows users to customize the illuminated Apple logo on the new MacBook Pro lids, including adjusting brightness and turning it off without using Terminal.
- The app offers a "Breathe" mode that makes the logo pulse gently, and a Pro version (available for $9 temporarily, $15 later) adds "Music" mode syncing the light to music beats and "Agents" mode indicating activity status.
- Apple reintroduced the glowing logo with the latest 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, using a custom light source since OLED displays lack a backlight, unlike older MacBooks.
- The logo's brightness automatically adjusts based on screen brightness and ambient light, and it is lit by a white LED that does not change colors.
- Apple designed the glowing logo feature to enhance the MacBook Pro's aesthetic without increasing the device's thickness, emphasizing its appeal.
