Use Edge Light for Better Video Calls in macOS

Apple successful macOS Tahoe 26.2 introduced Edge Light, a clever caller diagnostic that turns your Mac's show into a virtual ringing airy during video calls. Instead of fumbling with outer lighting equipment, your Mac tin present illuminate your look automatically erstwhile you're sitting successful a acheronian room.


Basically, Edge Light adds a brushed glow astir the edges of your show to brighten your look during video conferences. But it's acold from conscionable a elemental surface borderline effect. Edge Light uses your Mac's Neural Engine to analyse your face, size, and presumption successful the framework to present close lighting, portion the Image Signal Processor fine-tunes brightness to lucifer your environment.

The diagnostic is adjacent alert capable to cognize erstwhile your cursor approaches the show edge. When it does, Edge Light automatically recedes, allowing you to inactive entree on-screen contented without it interfering.

What You'll Need

Edge Light works connected immoderate Mac with Apple silicon (M1 oregon later). It's compatible with each video conferencing apps and adjacent extends to outer cameras and the Apple Studio Display erstwhile connected to an Apple silicon Mac.

How to Turn On Edge Light

Once you've updated to macOS Tahoe 26.2 oregon later, enabling Edge Light takes conscionable a mates of clicks:

1. Open a supporting video telephone app (FaceTime, Zoom, oregon WebEx, for example).


2. Click the greenish video conferencing paper barroom point astatine the apical of your screen.


3. Select Edge Light from the drop-down menu.

To set the lighting strength and colour temperature, click the down chevron adjacent to Edge Light. You'll spot 2 sliders that fto you customize the brightness and warmth of the effect to suit your preferences.

If you ain a Mac released successful 2024 oregon later, you tin crook connected automatic Edge Light activation. Once enabled, your Mac volition observe erstwhile you're successful a dimly lit situation and crook the diagnostic connected without immoderate manual input. Simply look for the automatic toggle successful the video telephone dropdown menu, instantly beneath the expanded Edge Light options.
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