This is definitely spiffy.
Apple’s newly-released 2018 Touch Bar MacBook Pro functions as the first MacBook Pro with a True Tone display. As such, the notebook can also extend this functionality to a couple external displays such as Apple’s Thunderbolt display as well as the LG UtraFine 4K and 5K displays.
True Tone first showed up on the iPad Pro and then the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. It uses sensors in your device to detect the ambient light and adjust the display white balance for consistent color.
The idea is that the lighting around you changes how you perceive color on screen. Adapting to that is supposed to create a more natural and predictable.
Apple offered the following description of the feature:
The Retina displays in MacBook Pro (2018) include True Tone technology, which uses advanced multichannel sensors to adjust the color and intensity of your display to match the ambient light so that images appear more natural.
Users can enable or disable the True Tone for the MacBook Pro’s built-in Retina Display, and can apparently extend up to three external displays. Assuming you Apple’s discontinued Thunderbolt Display, or either of LG’s UltraFine displays, you can get the same color consistence across all of your screens.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available.
Via The Mac Observer and Apple