Hi, I recently bought a MacBook pro and the dark mode is not working as you can see in the screenshots. it only darkens the menu bar and the dock also had the same problem on macOS Catalina. Please help
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I have tried almost everything possible but it doesn’t work. I’m just afraid to reset it because I have so my configurations which why I don’t want To reset it.
Um yes I’m not sure if it is going to backup all my settings or not. Settings are Essential to me. When I bought the MacBook I instantly install BigSur developer version However It had too many issues I had to downgrade and lost all my settings when I installed Catalina again dark mode worked for a while Then it suddenly disappeared. So far I haven’t received any help because use majority of the people haven’t faced this issue I tried to submit my question on many Different online forums.
Reinstalling macOS over your existing installation doesn't change settings or personal files.
However, you should first create a new, test User Account to see if the problem is particular to your existing one.
However, you should first create a new, test User Account to see if the problem is particular to your existing one.
Hi, can you link me a way to reinstall macOS over my existing installation thanks.
How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
You can use macOS Recovery, your computer's built-in recovery system, to reinstall the Mac operating system. Reinstalling macOS doesn't remove your personal data.
Step 1: Choose Command-R
Step 2: Don't erase drive
I reinstalled macOS but it didn't work. Somehow adding a new user-worked as you said before. Is there a way to see the log of my current profile?How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support
You can use macOS Recovery, your computer's built-in recovery system, to reinstall the Mac operating system. Reinstalling macOS doesn't remove your personal data.support.apple.com
Step 1: Choose Command-R
Step 2: Don't erase drive
You must have something installed/added that is mucking up the works. Download Etrecheck and generate an anonymous report that you can post here.
EtreCheck version: 5.6.2 (5220)
Report generated: 2020-10-22 21:30:15
Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com
Runtime: 2:07
Performance: Excellent
Sandbox: Enabled
Full drive access: Enabled
Problem: Other problem
Description:
Dark mode not working
Major Issues:
Anything that appears on this list needs immediate attention.
Gatekeeper disabled - Gatekeeper security protection is disabled. This computer is at risk of malware infection.
Apple security disabled - Apple security software is disabled. This computer is at risk of malware infection.
Minor Issues:
These issues do not need immediate attention but they may indicate future problems or opportunities for improvement.
No Time Machine backup - Time Machine backup not found.
Apps crashing - There have been numerous app crashes.
Unsigned files - There are unsigned software files installed. Apple has said that unsigned software will not run by default in a future version of the operating system.
Kernel extensions present - This computer has kernel extensions that may not work in the future.
Hardware Information:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2020, Four Thunderbolt 3 ports)
MacBook Pro Model: MacBookPro16,2
2 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5 (i5-1038NG7) CPU: 4-core
16 RAM - Not upgradeable
BANK 0/ChannelA-DIMM0 - 8 GB LPDDR4X 3733
BANK 2/ChannelB-DIMM0 - 8 GB LPDDR4X 3733
Battery: Health = Normal - Cycle count = 23
Video Information:
Intel Iris Plus Graphics - VRAM: 1536 MB
Color LCD (built-in) 2880 x 1800
Drives:
disk0 - APPLE SSD AP1024N 1.00 TB (Solid State - TRIM: Yes)
Internal PCI-Express 8.0 GT/s x4 NVM Express
disk0s1 - EFI [EFI] 315 MB
disk0s2 [APFS Container] 1.00 TB
disk1 [APFS Virtual drive] 1.00 TB (Shared by 8 volumes)
disk1s1 - Macintosh HD (APFS) (Shared - 15.12 GB used)
disk1s2 - M******************* - Data (APFS) [APFS Virtual drive] (Shared - 151.80 GB used)
disk1s3 - Preboot (APFS) [APFS Preboot] (Shared - 306 MB used)
disk1s4 - Recovery (APFS) [Recovery] (Shared)
disk1s5 - VM (APFS) [APFS VM] (Shared - 1.07 GB used)
disk1s6 - U****e (APFS) (Shared - 975 KB used)
disk1s7s1 - Macintosh HD - Data (APFS) (Shared - 15.11 GB used)
disk1s7 - Macintosh HD - Data (APFS) [Fusion Drive] (Shared)
disk1s7s1 - Macintosh HD - Data (APFS) (Shared - 15.11 GB used)
Mounted Volumes:
disk1s1 - Macintosh HD
1.00 TB (Shared - 15.12 GB used, 815.97 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /Volumes/Macintosh HD
Read-only: Yes
disk1s2 - M******************* - Data [APFS Virtual drive]
1.00 TB (Shared - 151.80 GB used, 816.13 GB available, 815.97 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /System/Volumes/Data
Encrypted
disk1s3 - Preboot [APFS Preboot]
1.00 TB (Shared - 306 MB used, 815.97 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /System/Volumes/Preboot
disk1s5 - VM [APFS VM]
1.00 TB (Shared - 1.07 GB used, 815.97 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /System/Volumes/VM
disk1s6 - U****e
1.00 TB (Shared - 975 KB used, 815.97 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /System/Volumes/U****e
disk1s7s1 - Macintosh HD - Data
1.00 TB (Shared - 15.11 GB used, 816.13 GB available, 815.97 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /
Read-only: Yes
Network:
Interface en0: Wi-Fi
802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Interface en6: Bluetooth PAN
Interface bridge0: Thunderbolt Bridge
System Software:
macOS Big Sur 11.0 (20A5395g)
Time since boot: Less than an hour
Notifications:
OneDrive.app
4 notifications
MacUpdater.app
41 notifications
Amphetamine.app
one notification
EtreCheck.app
one notification
Canary Mail.app
2 notifications
Security:
Gatekeeper: Anywhere
System Integrity Protection: Enabled
Antivirus software: CleanMyMac
Unsigned Files:
Safari Extension: "Open In" button for Internet Explorer
Plugin: ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Folx3Plugin.plugin
Apps: 6
Kernel Extensions:
/Applications/Parallels Desktop.app
prl_hypervisor.kext (16.0.1 48919 - SDK 10.11)
prl_netbridge.kext (16.0.1 48919 - SDK 10.9)
prl_usb_connect.kext (16.0.1 48919 - SDK 10.9)
prl_vnic.kext (16.0.1 48919 - SDK 10.9)
/Library/Application Support/Logitech.localized/Logitech Options.localized
LogiMgrDriver.kext (8.30.1 - SDK 10.13)
/Library/Extensions/VyprVPN
VyprVPNMalwareFilter.kext (1.0 - SDK 10.12)
System Launch Agents:
[Not Loaded] 17 Apple tasks
[Loaded] 182 Apple tasks
[Running] 133 Apple tasks
System Launch Daemons:
[Not Loaded] 38 Apple tasks
[Loaded] 182 Apple tasks
[Running] 140 Apple tasks
[Other] One Apple task
Launch Daemons:
[Loaded] com.macpaw.CleanMyMac4.Agent.plist (MacPaw Inc. - installed 2020-10-22)
[Loaded] com.piriform.ccleaner.CCleanerAgent.plist (Piriform Ltd - installed 2020-10-22)
User Login Items:
[Not Loaded] AdGuard Login Helper (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/AdGuard for Safari.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/AdGuard Login Helper.app
[Loaded] AmphetamineLoginHelper (App Store - installed 2020-09-30)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Amphetamine.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/AmphetamineLoginHelper.app
[Running] BetterTouchTool (Andreas Hegenberg - installed 2020-10-12)
Application
/Applications/BetterTouchTool.app
[Not Loaded] Bitwarden Login Helper (App Store - installed 2020-10-20)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Bitwarden.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Bitwarden Login Helper.app
[Not Loaded] Deliveries Express (App Store - installed 2020-10-20)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Deliveries.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Deliveries Express.app
[Loaded] Launcher (App Store - installed 2020-10-03)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Dropover.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Launcher.app
[Loaded] Kite Autostart (MANHATTAN ENGINEERING INC - installed 2020-10-20)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Kite.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/KiteAutostart.app
[Not Loaded] Kite Helper (MANHATTAN ENGINEERING INC - installed 2020-10-20)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Kite.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/KiteHelper.app
[Loaded] MacUpdaterLaunchHelper (CoreCode Limited - installed 2020-10-10)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/MacUpdater.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/MacUpdaterLaunchHelper.app
[Not Loaded] Moodle Desktop Login Helper (App Store - installed 2020-10-12)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Moodle Desktop.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Moodle Desktop Login Helper.app
[Not Loaded] NordVPNLauncher (App Store - installed 2020-10-22)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/NordVPN IKE.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/NordVPNLauncher.app
[Not Loaded] Launcher Disabler (App Store - installed 2020-10-20)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/OneDrive.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/Launcher Disabler.app
[Not Loaded] OneDrive Launcher (App Store - installed 2020-10-20)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/OneDrive.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/OneDrive Launcher.app
[Not Loaded] SpaceLauncherHelper (Chen Guo - installed 2018-01-09)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/SpaceLauncher.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/SpaceLauncherHelper.app
[Not Loaded] StartUpHelper (Spotify - installed 2020-10-16)
Modern Login Item
/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/StartUpHelper.app
Internet Plug-ins:
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: 17.012.20098 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-09-11)
AdobeAAMDetect: 3.0.0.0 (Adobe Inc. - installed 2020-10-19)
AdobePDFViewer: 20.012.20048 (Adobe Systems, Inc. - installed 2020-09-11)
Audio Plug-ins:
Background Music Device: 0.3.2 (Kyle Neideck - installed 2019-11-17)
Safari Extensions:
"Open In" button for Internet Explorer (? - installed 2020-09-04)
AdGuard (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdGuard Custom (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdGuard Other (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdGuard Privacy (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdGuard Safari Icon (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdGuard Security (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdGuard Social (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
AdvancedBlocking (App Store - installed 2020-09-23)
Bitwarden (App Store - installed 2020-10-20)
Dark Reader (App Store - installed 2020-10-10)
Grammarly for Safari (App Store - installed 2020-10-20)
ImageSearch Extension (App Store - installed 2020-10-10)
Backup:
Time Machine Not Configured!
One other local snapshot
Performance:
System Load: 1.85 (1 min ago) 2.58 (5 min ago) 2.75 (15 min ago)
Nominal I/O speed: 8.24 MB/s
File system: 23.17 seconds
Write speed: 2846 MB/s
Read speed: 2181 MB/s
CPU Usage Snapshot:
Type Overall
System: 2 %
User: 5 %
Idle: 93 %
Top Processes Snapshot by CPU:
Process (count) CPU (Source - Location)
Other processes 33.14 % (?)
EtreCheck 20.35 % (App Store)
Canary Mail 1.31 % (App Store)
ControlCenter 0.56 % (Apple)
accountsd 0.23 % (Apple)
Top Processes Snapshot by Memory:
Process (count) RAM usage (Source - Location)
Safari 725 MB (Apple)
EtreCheck 638 MB (App Store)
Finder 266 MB (Apple)
App Store 264 MB (Apple)
Kite 249 MB (MANHATTAN ENGINEERING INC)
Top Processes Snapshot by Network Use:
Process (count) Input / Output (Source - Location)
Other processes 809 KB / 771 KB (?)
FinderSync.appex 15 KB / 3 KB (App Store)
Kite 5 KB / 3 KB (MANHATTAN ENGINEERING INC)
homed 0 B / 0 B (Apple)
NotificationCenter 0 B / 0 B (Apple)
Virtual Memory Information:
Physical RAM: 16 GB
Free RAM: 986 MB
Used RAM: 8.78 GB
Cached files: 6.26 GB
Available RAM: 7.22 GB
Swap Used: 0 B
Software Installs (past 30 days):
Install Date Name (Version)
2020-09-23 AdBlock (1.26.0)
2020-09-23 Night Eye (4.3.4)
2020-09-23 1Blocker (3.9)
2020-09-23 AdGuard for Safari (1.8.2)
2020-09-23 Notability (4.4.1)
2020-09-23 Gatekeeper Configuration Data (181)
2020-09-23 Safari (14.0)
2020-09-24 macOS Catalina 10.15.7 Update
2020-09-25 Twitter (8.37.1)
2020-09-25 iMovie (10.1.16)
2020-09-25 Adobe Acrobat DC (Continuous) (20.012.20048)
2020-09-27 Logitech Options (8.30)
2020-09-30 Moodle Desktop (3.9.2)
2020-09-30 BetterSnapTool (1.9.3)
2020-09-30 Canary Mail (3.11)
2020-09-30 Pages (10.0)
2020-09-30 Countdowns (5.4.4)
2020-09-30 Amphetamine (5.0.3)
2020-10-01 Fantastical (3.2.1)
2020-10-02 Battery Stats for AirPods (1.0)
2020-10-03 Dropover (3.6.7)
2020-10-04 Voice Update - Moira (7.0.2)
2020-10-04 Voice Update - Maeve (1.3.13)
2020-10-05 macOS Public Beta Access Utility (1.0.0.0.1.1595366870)
2020-10-05 macOS Big Sur Beta (11.0)
2020-10-06 The Unarchiver (4.2.2)
2020-10-06 SF Symbols (2.0.1.1600308700)
2020-10-10 Dark Reader for Safari (1.3.3)
2020-10-10 ImageSearch (1.0.1)
2020-10-10 SIGNALSPAM (3.2.3)
2020-10-10 Faviconizer (1.0.5)
2020-10-13 RedQuits (2.0)
2020-10-19 Friendly Streaming (5.1)
2020-10-19 Voice Update - Arthur (1.3.1)
2020-10-20 XProtectPlistConfigData (2133)
2020-10-20 Bitwarden (1.22.2)
2020-10-20 Deliveries (9.0.2)
2020-10-20 Python (0)
2020-10-20 OneDrive (20.124.0621)
2020-10-20 Microsoft Teams (1.00.326266)
2020-10-20 Grammarly for Safari (9.20)
2020-10-21 Xcode (12.1)
2020-10-22 macOS 11.0 (11.0)
2020-10-22 MRTConfigData (1.68)
2020-10-22 GoodNotes (5.6.11)
2020-10-22 NordVPN IKE (5.9.1)
2020-10-22 EtreCheck (5.6.2)
Diagnostics Information (past 7-30 days):
2020-10-22 21:04:27 com.piriform.ccleaner.CCleanerAgent Crash (20 times)
Executable: /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.piriform.ccleaner.CCleanerAgent
Details:
dyld: launch, loading dependent libraries
End of report
Someone had exact same problem:
discussions.apple.com
Dark Mode on Mac OS Mojave not working pr… - Apple Community
That’s unfortunate. Typically an issue with preferences is resolved by... literally deleting your preferences file, or migrating to a new User to start fresh. In your case, you downgraded from Big Sur and probably have some now-incompatible values stored in your relevant plist, i.e.:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
Deleting that file, and logging out and back in to your User, might fix Dark Mode, but you would need to re-configure everything from scratch. Also, it might not fix Dark Mode, because there's other plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ that seem to reply to switching that setting in my testing, and they might reintroduce the incompatible values.
What would I do, in your boat? Delete the systempreferences.plist and reconfigure my settings, and see what happens.
I deleted them both, logged out and restarted my MacBook the problem persists.
Ah. Then it's either time to move to a new user and start fresh, wait for an OS update to fix it, or wait for someone who knows magic Terminal commands to chime in.
Is there a way to backup all the data, reinstall the Os and retrieve all the apps including the data? For example backing up an iPhone on iTunes
There is a terminal command to do exactly what you are seeing - to force "dark mode" to only affect the Menu Bar and the Dock... the command below turns that off... Enter this command in Terminal and then restart your computer.
Code:
defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool No
Thankyou for this - I have had the exact same problem and this solved it for me. Chapeau.