The app wil save you a lot of hassle over having to adjust brightness manually, but unfortunately isn't polished enough to be a product, so you need to build it, which unfortunately requires some familiarity with XCode and building macOS apps. The apps I tried are flaky, badly implemented, limited, badly designed.īRIGHTNESS MENULET APP ( Free OpenSource code on GitHub, but you have to build it) The problem is it darkens screenshots, ruining them! It simply inserts an overlay graphic with an opacity setting so it darkens the screen by covering it. There's one on the App Store I found that looks like it works well, but it's badly implemented. I haven't found any good apps that resolve this. It's tedius, multi-step, awkward and worse if you have more than one external monitor. That's unfortunate since there's an industry standard DDC protocol to make it possible to control brightness 'over-the-wire'.Īdjusting Dell monitor brightness from the physical panel button/menu is a hassle.
The Dell 4K monitors work fine.īut Apple dumped its monitor business without creating a way to adjust 3rd party monitor brightness from the keyboard. Recently announced an ungodly expensive 'reference monitor'īeyond the need and budget of most people.įor my iMac, I bought two Apple-recommended 4K Dell monitors to go with my retina iMac. Apple stopped Thunderbolt display and Cinema display line.
