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iPhone Dark theme request

Kozre

Kozre

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Nov 4, 2013
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What do you think about a request letter or petition to Apple to provide dark theme for all ios7 devices? I can't see anything hard to made this for apple r&d.
I think about dark theme from first days on ios7, because white one is too bright on min in darkness and also annoys on spacegray sometimes.
I found great new look of "remote", Will be great to see such style for main music app, messages and so on.
 

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I've been using the invert colors feature to she it at night especially for sites that have a white background. Makes it much easier to read. I set my home button to it so I can triple click to turn it on.
 
The interface in the FaceTime app is perfect. I'd definitely put my name down for that option.
 
Given how iOS 7 was designed, it should be (relatively) easy to make this possible. Would it not be just assigning different colors? They do it pretty well with maps.

Also, I think Jony and Craig are more likely to listen to people than Steve and Scott were. Given that this wouldn't be too difficult of a feature to implement, creating a petition may actually do us good.

Edit: Here's a mockup I did a while ago. What I find very interesting is that all of those vibrant colors that it uses, Work just as well against white vs. black. I think that was probably intentional. The more I think about it, I'd be surprised if we don't see this by iOS 8 (but i'd rather 7.1).

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Some good ideas going here, guys.

As was posted above, setting triple-click home to Invert Colors helps wonders in the meantime.

But you'd think they'd be able to come up with a dark theme after all these years. How would this not be more useful than parallax?...

Poll?
 
Honestly, I think the reason they forwent the dark theme was because it'd look too much like Android, which uses a dark theme because many Android devices use an OLED screen (black isn't "on," so it doesn't use up battery).

But every time I see that black keyboard pop up on my iPhone or iPad… stunning.
 
Yes, Dark theme... bring it on... I would like ability to pick theme for each individual apps... Some apps looks nice with white theme some looks good with dark theme
 
Kozre said:
What do you think about a request letter or petition to Apple to provide dark theme for all ios7 devices? I can't see anything hard to made this for apple r&d.
I think about dark theme from first days on ios7, because white one is too bright on min in darkness and also annoys on spacegray sometimes.
I found great new look of "remote", Will be great to see such style for main music app, messages and so on.
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Apple went out of their way to introduce some bright colors with iOS 7 and the iPhone 5C. i doubt they are going to undo that by allowing dark themes.

Apple is also smart not to give customers everything they want.
 
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The remote.app looks much better than the music.app.

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P.S. Anyone know how to make linked images appear smaller? Those are huge!
 
So all of you agree with me, glad to see that.
I will write example with main points and post it here to collect all your advices and edit my message to apple.
 
SJism23 said:
Honestly, I think the reason they forwent the dark theme was because it'd look too much like Android, which uses a dark theme because many Android devices use an OLED screen (black isn't "on," so it doesn't use up battery).

But every time I see that black keyboard pop up on my iPhone or iPad… stunning.
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You mean too much like Windows Phone, which has a *drumroll please* light theme and dark theme? ;)
 
Dark theme request

thejadedmonkey said:
You mean too much like Windows Phone, which has a *drumroll please* light theme and dark theme? ;)
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Who cares about WinPhone or Android comparison?
After IOS7 release everyone compared it with Android, win8, Miui and other stuff, laughing out that iOS7 is a piece of plagiarism. I just use my device and want more comfort in night. I don't want to twirl like a crazy home button every time I need to check picture or smthing else in dark
Also I want my spacegray looks better.

Just asked who wants to help...
Sorry for bad english
 
I'm not keen on the full-on black in your mockups, but the dark grey elements in facetime and Private Safari browsing are perfect.
 
kmj2318 said:
Given how iOS 7 was designed, it should be (relatively) easy to make this possible. Would it not be just assigning different colors? They do it pretty well with maps.

Also, I think Jony and Craig are more likely to listen to people than Steve and Scott were. Given that this wouldn't be too difficult of a feature to implement, creating a petition may actually do us good.

Edit: Here's a mockup I did a while ago. What I find very interesting is that all of those vibrant colors that it uses, Work just as well against white vs. black. I think that was probably intentional. The more I think about it, I'd be surprised if we don't see this by iOS 8 (but i'd rather 7.1).

Image
Click to expand...

I was about to go turn on inverted colours when I read that these are just mockups :(
 
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