Mayo, sometimes when we're on our little video call that we do before we record each week,

I notice that your room is a little dark.

You look a little dark when you sit there.

Wow.

Especially I can take, I can kind of monitor the weather in the UK based on how bright it is or dark it is in your office.

Well, I do have blinds and some days I don't bother moving the blinds up, which does contribute. But also it is now the dim winter. And we obviously record where it's like the afternoon for me, so the height of the sun is setting, you know, getting close. It's on the way down rather than the way up. So yeah, it does look a bit dimly lit. And today was definitely one of those cases because I didn't want to put it in a blind up.

Well, the good news is that in MacOS 26.2, Beta 2, Apple has a feature that can just brighten you up,

make you look like you're in a crisp room, perfect lighting, and it's called edge light.

So this is something, it's a feature that basically,

you know those ring lights that a lot of people buy and they either attach them to the top of

their display or they sit them on the floor around them. It's basically a digital version of a

ring light, puts it around the edges of your Mac display. And if you're in a dark environment, it's meant

to just illuminate your face to make it easier for other people to see you on video calls.

Yeah, it puts like a bright white border around the edge of the screen. There's more to it than

just that. Like you can adjust the color temperature of the ring. You can adjust the brightness

of the ring. It's using the

image signal processor. So it also is like looking for you in the frame and trying to adjust

the lighting angle to be right at your face. If you're using a Mac from 2024 or newer, it'll

automatically turn on if it detects you're in a dark environment. So it's more than just like cranking the brightness up on your screen. It's trying to be intelligent about it. Wait, you need a 2024 Mac to do that. Just to do the automatic thing, yeah. You can manually turn it on. They have ambient light sensors on Max going back years. I wonder what happened in 2024. Did they the ambient license it's a lot more sensitive or something?

It's so weird that it's 2024, not like M2 or later, or M3 or later. It's the year, which is weird. That's mine. I need to get rid of my M1 Mapbit Pro. Now it's, now it's done so. This is the feature that pushed you over here. No, but this is actually, I think, really clever.

At first I was kind of skeptical.

I was like, why would anybody the feature that pushed you over. Yeah. No, but this is actually, I think, really clever.

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