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True Tone on External Displays Doesn't Work With MacBook Pro in Clamshell Mode [Updated]

This may not be a big deal if you work in a room/office where the lighting is consistent and TrueTone doesn't just turn off when the laptop lid is closed. That is, the most recent TrueTone setting is kept until the laptop is opened again.
 
If you want your monitor to be calibrated to your room and you have an older Mac or for some reason want the display closed you can buy a color calibration device such as a Spyder or i1. I think the newer ones have ambient light colorimeters that can update throughout the day instead of just during calibration if you leave them plugged in. Highly recommended for color critical workflows. I usually have had my offices setup over the years so that I can control the light coming into the room so I don't have reflections or mixed lighting, and since a desktop display doesn't often move it's fine to just calibrate it once and then periodically update it once or twice per year as the monitor ages.
 
artfossil said:
It's the Alice in Wonderland effect. (When you can reach the key on the table, you're too big to get through the door; when you can fit through the door, the key is on the table . . . .) That is:

When Apple has a feature in a laptop, it's unimportant and only for coffee-shop sitting by effete hipsters.
When Apple doesn't have a feature in a laptop it's critical to real work by real professionals.
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Beautifully put.

Now where's my 64GB RAM in the laptop! I've got real work to do, dammit! *slams table*

Real work! Pro work! Work that these Fisher Price machines can't handle! I'm losing so much time and money, so I'll just complain on every thread here!
 
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Presumably the new standalone display will have a sensor for TrueTone, so that could eventually be an option for clamshell mode.
 
1. "...next to the FaceTime HD camera" Everyone who I know covers their camera, so does this mean that it True Tone won't work for them?
2. As a graphic designer, I need "true" colors, not colors which have been altered to fit my environment -- so I wouldn't use it anyway.
 
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I don't have TrueTone on my Note8 (obviously). But at night I turn on the Night Light (the yellow tint for nighttime). Sometimes I do it manually and don't manually reset it the next day. When I remember to do it, the blue is really jarring. I prefer it with the slight yellow tint. I think that I will enjoy the TrueTone on the MacBook Pro for reading and writing. Will turn it off for Photo work.
 
Ronlap said:
1. "...next to the FaceTime HD camera" Everyone who I know covers their camera, so does this mean that it True Tone won't work for them?
2. As a graphic designer, I need "true" colors, not colors which have been altered to fit my environment -- so I wouldn't use it anyway.
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Why cover the camera??
 
Cryates said:
Some creative pros (video editors, photographers, etc) will require true color accuracy, but for everything else, True Tone will be a blessing.
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Why? The old yellow lighting was from the days of cave men and women sitting around the campfire. Surely we have progressed since then. In fact, we have daylight LED lighting throughout our house and it just seems less gloomy.

Now I know this is another not politically correct position, but just the same this seems like more make it and they will rejoice than some pent up need for society. I'm sure there are studies that prove the concept, but as most studies these days the results were probably just bought and paid for, not necessarily real science.

Of course, I am not talking about the problems of looking directly at the sun, because displays are not that bright and anyway this just changes the color. I don't see how color can make that much difference. For me, the white version looks so much better. I want to see real colors, not what my great great grandmother saw reading a book in front of the fireplace.

If you disagree, then tell me about your eyestrain from being exposed to the full color spectrum. No wait, we as humans went for millennia without even having sun glasses, but now all of a sudden in the last 30 years it has become a problem.

Summary, just another gimmick.
 
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DrJohnnyN said:
Thanks for the insight. I read the article in its entirety.
This feature won't help Apple sell more units.
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If you’ve made your mind up already, why did you ask the question in the first place?
For the record, after having used True Tone on the iPad, I would say that it is important to me.
Has this changed your opinion yet? I thought not.
 
nt5672 said:
Why? The old yellow lighting was from the days of cave men and women sitting around the campfire. Surely we have progressed since then. In fact, we have daylight LED lighting throughout our house and it just seems less gloomy.

Now I know this is another not politically correct position, but just the same this seems like more make it and they will rejoice than some pent up need for society. I'm sure there are studies that prove the concept, but as most studies these days the results were probably just bought and paid for, not necessarily real science.

Of course, I am not talking about the problems of looking directly at the sun, because displays are not that bright and anyway this just changes the color. I don't see how color can make that much difference. For me, the white version looks so much better. I want to see real colors, not what my great great grandmother saw reading a book in front of the fireplace.

If you disagree, then tell me about your eyestrain from being exposed to the full color spectrum. No wait, we as humans went for millennia without even having sun glasses, but now all of a sudden in the last 30 years it has become a problem.

Summary, just another gimmick.
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Spot on. A gimmick.
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Wando64 said:
If you’ve made your mind up already, why did you ask the question in the first place?
For the record, after having used True Tone on the iPad, I would say that it is important to me.
Has this changed your opinion yet? I thought not.
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It was a rhetorical question. Did you think about that? I thought not.
 
If Olloclip or another manufacturer made an add-on for the 2018 MBP, we could literally be seeing our desktop through a rose-colored lens. :D
 
nt5672 said:
Why? The old yellow lighting was from the days of cave men and women sitting around the campfire. Surely we have progressed since then. In fact, we have daylight LED lighting throughout our house and it just seems less gloomy.

Now I know this is another not politically correct position, but just the same this seems like more make it and they will rejoice than some pent up need for society. I'm sure there are studies that prove the concept, but as most studies these days the results were probably just bought and paid for, not necessarily real science.

Of course, I am not talking about the problems of looking directly at the sun, because displays are not that bright and anyway this just changes the color. I don't see how color can make that much difference. For me, the white version looks so much better. I want to see real colors, not what my great great grandmother saw reading a book in front of the fireplace.

If you disagree, then tell me about your eyestrain from being exposed to the full color spectrum. No wait, we as humans went for millennia without even having sun glasses, but now all of a sudden in the last 30 years it has become a problem.

Summary, just another gimmick.
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Sorry, but I don’t think you have understood what True Tone does and why.
If you look at a white sheet of paper, the temperature of the white will change depending on the ambient light. THIS is the natural way that we have experienced “for millennia” (as you put it).
True Tone simply replicates this entirely natural experience.
 
True Tone is awesome when used in conjunction with my Hue white ambiance light bulbs that I can change color temperature throughout the evening and night.
 
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