Guide

Using Your MacBook Outdoors

More brightness can help outdoors, but glare and heat also affect readability.

• Shade the screen and avoid direct reflections where possible.
• Try a light appearance with clear, high-contrast text.
• On a validated XDR panel, Lumi can request an extended brightness target. Available output still depends on conditions.
• If the Mac gets hot or output falls, move somewhere cooler and reduce the target.

Lumi’s beta is currently tested on a 14-inch M2 Pro MacBook Pro. Nit values are estimates, not a measure of outdoor visibility.