How to automatically dim flashing lights on Mac

Learning how to automatically dim flashing lights on Mac is extremely important if you, a friend or a family member experiences photosensitive seizures. 

Those with photosensitive epilepsy experience seizures brought on by flashing or strobing lights, and this can include flashing lights emanating from digital screens. If you yourself have photosensitive epilepsy, or you’re sharing your screen with someone who does, tweaking your Mac’s settings to automatically counter such lighting effects can reduce the risk of seizures. 

Thankfully, as you’d expect from one of the best laptops around, Macs have an accessibility feature to automatically dim any flashing lights. Better yet, it’s incredibly easy to enable, although you might miss the feature if you didn’t know where to look. Don’t worry though — we’re here to guide you through the process. 

Here’s how to automatically dim flashing lights on Mac.

How to automatically dim flashing lights on Mac

1. Open Settings
2. Click Accessibility
3. Select Display
4. Toggle on Dim flashing lights

Read on to see illustrated steps.

That’s really all there is to it. Nice and simple to find and enable, as you’d expect an important safety feature to be. 

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