Here’s how to unlock your Googlebook’s secret light show

TL;DR

The steps to find the hidden Glowbar Disco app on Googlebooks have been revealed.
The app is tucked away in the system settings, but it’s easy enough to find when you know where to look.
Glowbar Disco lets you customize the laptop’s light strip with colors, animations, and music-sync effects.

The Glowbar is one of the more distinctive features of the new Googlebooks, adding a splash of color to the lid while also serving practical purposes, such as indicating battery status and Gemini activity. But Google has also given it a party trick in the form of a hidden Glowbar Disco app. We learned about the app a couple of weeks ago, but Google didn’t reveal how to access it at the time. However, with the new laptops now out in the wild, the beans have officially been spilled.

As revealed by Chrome Unboxed, the app is tucked away in the system settings rather than appearing in the usual app launcher. Fortunately, you don’t need to be tech-savvy to track it down. Here’s how to open Glowbar Disco on your Googlebook:

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