I want to disable the light on the apple behind my screen. Besides covering it physically, is there a program or setting to disable it?
Reason being - to make my MacBook Pro as uninteresting as possible to hyperactive two-year-olds.
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Sign up to join this communityI want to disable the light on the apple behind my screen. Besides covering it physically, is there a program or setting to disable it?
Reason being - to make my MacBook Pro as uninteresting as possible to hyperactive two-year-olds.
Nope.
The glowing Apple on your MacBook Pro is actually illuminated by the backlight of your screen as well. So you can't turn it off as long as you have your screen lighted on. Your best bet is probably to put a sticker on it.
I don't think this is possible. The Apple logo (at least on a MacBook Air and the two previous Apple laptops I owned) is lit by the backlight of your screen. (Try changing your screen brightness, and you'll see the brightness of the Apple logo change as well.) I think covering it would be your only option.
If you can google around a bit, i recall seeing stickers that can be applied to the inside of the MacBooks white plastic apple logo, to give it different appearances. I'm sure you can cover it up with an opaque material like thick paper to keep it from glowing, but to keep it as clean looking as possible on the outside.