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iPhone 17 Pro Max Dark mode or light mode
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got to be the 23rd time this question is asked ...
How about yourself?
For me, light during the day, dark at night, set to auto.
sorry for nitpicking on you again, it is far more pleasant for YOU to use, my old eyes cannot handle dark mode during the day, neither indoors nor outdoors.
Dark. Always. One of the (many) reasons I started jailbreaking my iPhones in late 2011. I had Dark Mode long before Apple made it stock.
I hacked together a modified Auto mode in shortcuts. Dark mode comes on 30 minutes before sunset and switches back to light mode 30 minutes after sunrise.
I find that the system Auto mode stays on light mode too long in the evening and switches to light too early in the morning.
I find that the system Auto mode stays on light mode too long in the evening and switches to light too early in the morning.
Used to be dark mode all the time. But now i just set it on automatic based on sunset and sun rise
Totally cool
I appreciate and welcome the info. I can tell my eyes are getting there. I can’t do dark mode in a darkly lit room like I used to. I’ll be there before too long.
I keep it on 24/7 on both my 17 Pro and Macbook Air M3. I have serious photosensitivity issues and cannot handle bright white anything, or bright lights at all (my home remains a subtle dim warm lit glow ala 1970s interior lighting) and often keep Night Shift on too, also it goes best with my Frutiger Aero/Nature UX-inspired theming (wallpaper, icon tint, etc) since there are currently no ways to 'tint' apps/windows to match the wallpaper like in Windows 10.
Now, if only someone made glasses that had some type of AI algorithm that could compensate for all those bright blue/white HID headlights that are on ALL cars/trucks today and seem to be on the brightest setting even in broad daylight! I mean yeah, you wanna be visible but at a certain point I'm covering my eyes and looking away so you're defeating the point (motorcycles are increasingly worse at this too, often brighter than an SUV)
Living in this era is just hellish. Give me back the Sodium Halide street lights and amber headlamps that people used to turn OFF in daytime!
Now, if only someone made glasses that had some type of AI algorithm that could compensate for all those bright blue/white HID headlights that are on ALL cars/trucks today and seem to be on the brightest setting even in broad daylight! I mean yeah, you wanna be visible but at a certain point I'm covering my eyes and looking away so you're defeating the point (motorcycles are increasingly worse at this too, often brighter than an SUV)
Living in this era is just hellish. Give me back the Sodium Halide street lights and amber headlamps that people used to turn OFF in daytime!
Back in the ye olde CP/M days (yeah I don't miss it!) amber monitors had a similar function, 'reverse video'. It was either black text on amber background, or amber text on black background. I often chose the latter.
On my Mac, currently it's dark mode and night shift 24/7, with the Sequoia wallpaper and dark tint icons (Tahoe) and a nature wallpaper for the Safari start page.
On my Mac, currently it's dark mode and night shift 24/7, with the Sequoia wallpaper and dark tint icons (Tahoe) and a nature wallpaper for the Safari start page.
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I had a Commodore 64 from 1984 on…Always appreciated this when using it at night…
Too blue. I truly don't miss those early 'flat UI designs' and in my case it was DeskMate, the UI on all the Tandy 1000s in junior high. Staring at it would instigate a migraine.
On my Mac: dark mode 24x7 as light mode is far too bright
On my iPhone: light during the day and dark at night, switching automatically
On my iPhone: light during the day and dark at night, switching automatically
Another thing that inspired dark mode 24/7 on my 17 Pro today is that during the iOS7-ification of iOS, Android became a temporary reprieve from flat UI (revisiting DeskMate) hell. Samsung and cheap phone makers tended to stick with a UX inspired by Android 2.3 (Samsung used 4.0 in the SIII, despite it looking like 2.3 thanks to TouchWiz) so everything had a default dark theme, including whatever old ancient version of YouTube it shipped with. So I kinda got used to that and kept it going forward. YouTube would look weird today with light mode on after years of the app having a dark theme during my Android tenure.
Heck, until its NAND ultimately gave out earlier this year, I was still enjoying YouTube via the browser (which defaulted to dark) on a Galaxy Note 10.1 3G/WiFi tablet (running Android 4.0 with a TouchWiz skin that made it look like 2.3, plenty skeuomorphic) Probably wouldn't have gone with an iPad to replace it if not for iOS 26 being forecasted (flat UI is over thank GOD!)
Heck, until its NAND ultimately gave out earlier this year, I was still enjoying YouTube via the browser (which defaulted to dark) on a Galaxy Note 10.1 3G/WiFi tablet (running Android 4.0 with a TouchWiz skin that made it look like 2.3, plenty skeuomorphic) Probably wouldn't have gone with an iPad to replace it if not for iOS 26 being forecasted (flat UI is over thank GOD!)
Depends.
On my iPhone, I use dark mode at home—it switches to light mode when I leave my house before the evening.
On my Macbook Pro, I use dark mode when I am using my laptop and automatically switch to light mode when I connect it to a monitor.
On my iPhone, I use dark mode at home—it switches to light mode when I leave my house before the evening.
On my Macbook Pro, I use dark mode when I am using my laptop and automatically switch to light mode when I connect it to a monitor.
Dark mode for me. Now that I've gotten used to always using dark mode, light mode is jarring, especially during that first cup of coffee between 3:00 and 4:00AM.