Use Edge Light for Better Video Calls in macOS

[Starfia]

No which makes it useless

So it seems useless?

Is anyone getting any useful benefit out of this?

Tried it. does absolutely nothing.

On Studio Display and the edge light makes no difference with face lighting.

Another worthless feature no one asked for bloating the OS.

I'm in a pretty dark studio with my Studio Display, and in that situation it makes a dramatic difference. (To this point, I'd typically throw up a window with light-coloured solid contents.)

Of course the light from a Studio Display isn't going to do much when augmenting an already well-lit room.

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

Ah yes! It couldn't possibly be a software feature that works on any monitor. Only Apple monitors can render a white ring around the software window! This is peak innovation <chefs-kiss.gif>

 

[Boeingfan]

To all saying using this makes no difference, the feature can only help in low light situations. The display is not as bright as a spot light.

There's no pleasing people. If Apple said it was helpful someone would set out to prove it's not, and if Apple said it's not someone would set out to prove it was. To get the narrative you want you just churn out reverse psychology 😁

 

[platinumaqua]

I don't get why drawing a white ring on the screen can't be done on Intel Macs.

 

[Larry_G]

Gimmicky nonsense - in that it's totally ineffectual. Maybe they could make their round mouse glow really bright to lighten eye shadows too!

 

[svish]

Good to see this. Have not yet updated my Macs. Not sure how useful it will be but will try it out soon once I update.

 

[philstubbington]

Doesn't seem to be an option for Microsoft Teams?

 

[ignatius345]

It would be nice if I could change the color of the edge light and the brightness of it separate from the rest of the display.

There is a color temperature slider, which goes from a cool white to a warm, orange color.

But yeah, I was disappointed to see that the "brightness" control just consists of... making the border larger or smaller without changing the brightness at all. I was naively assuming that it would be able to increase the actual brightness of the border itself independently from the rest of the display. Used it for one call just to try it out, but I'll probably forget about it going forward.

 

[randomgeeza]

More useless fluff, instead of real fixes. It's ***** and of no benefit at all. And, if you wear glasses, it's reflected and very obvious.

 

[Scramash]

works very well on 27 screen ---but with glasses the reflections are truly terrible

 

[artifex]

If you use this, I'd suggest you'd want warmer lighting (in that menu, the left or yellow side of the scale) rather than the cooler lighting shown in the example; she looks like she's facing an aquarium or something, and it certainly doesn't blend with the background lighting temperature. I don't know about other people, but conflicting color temperatures would probably give me eye fatigue and I might even subconsciously distrust the person more.