Apple explains how to turn off the new MacBook Pro's glowing logo

Apple has published an official support document explaining how to disable the illuminated logo on the new MacBook Pro, which returned after a decade. The logo lights up whenever the Mac is awake and adjusts based on screen brightness and ambient light. Users can turn the logo off completely by running a Terminal command with administrator privileges: "sudo defaults write com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode -int 0". To re-enable it, they must run "sudo defaults delete com.apple.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode", and reinstalling macOS will also restore the illumination. The glowing logo, a highlight of last week's announcement, uses a different approach than older models since the new OLED display lacks a backlight. Its brightness ties to screen and ambient light levels, and it appears as polished metal when the laptop is closed.