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How to Enable Dark Mode in iOS 13
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I can’t believd it’s FINALLY happening even tho jailbreakers have enjoyed the “new iOS design” in dark mode since iOS 7
Wonder what the hold up was , if any , beyond milking features and creating pent up demand like shipping OLED iPhones without it
Wonder what the hold up was , if any , beyond milking features and creating pent up demand like shipping OLED iPhones without it
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Yes. You gain the fix for LTE issues with Intel modems and Verizon by enabling Dark Mode. You know, the topic of the OP and thread.
Milking and beyond.
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It’s great that the LTE issues shall be fixed.
I'll be using the Sunrise to Sunset option. I'm wondering if the switch will occur suddenly while using the phone or will dark mode kick in after locking/unlocking the phone.
Only now do we realize that a bright white light shining into your eyeballs all day is suboptimal? The people writing the code most likely don't use black text on a white background.
Right. The unmentioned first step of the instructions is, "install iOS 13", which nobody should be putting on their primary phone - early reports are the first beta is buggy as hell (which is entirely reasonable, but some may be complacent, as last year's iOS 12 betas were said to be remarkably stable, even early on).
But every year there are some who install beta iOS on their phone, and then are astonished to find out it's buggy.
Dark mode tends to hurt my eyes more than help them so I don’t use it, but it’s nice iOS finally has the option. I think it would look better if it were more of a dark gray than black.
I’m glad they used an iPhone 8 for demonstration purposes and we don’t have look at no ugly notch for once.
I was thinking the same thing!!!! I know readers here are fairly tech savvy but.......im sure there are going to be a lot who going into settings then..........wait a minute, this “how to” isn’t working!!!!! Are we supposed to bookmark this for 4 months down the road, or is this for developers who have it??? People, i would think these articles aren’t really written for.
Whatever.
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I wish they’d tie it to the ambient light sensor like a lot of apps do already. When the ambient light is low, switch to dark mode, move somewhere brighter, back to light mode.
I like that. But it has to be done properly. In my car with CarPlay, this is done for Maps and when I drive on a cloudy day, it switches back and forth all the time. Very distracting. I assume CarPlay uses a sensor in my car (as my phone is inside a closed cover) and it hasn’t properly been tweaked.
That’s how I feel. I actually feel like I’m living in bizarro world with so many people liking dark mode. It seriously makes my eyes bleed. The contract is so drastic that anything on the black pops so much it kills my eyes.
It has nothing to do with the coding, but everything with marketing. Every new iOS Apple is dropping support for older phones, so people will buy the newer ones. We could be on iOS 1 with all the features iOS 12 has.
You don’t just tick on dark mode, and then that’s it. Much like dimming the brightness of your device in a normal mode...enable dark mode, then lower brightness to 25% etc. Then it’s ideal
Thanks for the tip. I’m going to try the “automatic” mode paired with True Tone so it only comes on at night dimmed.
I agree. I can’t believe it’s happening either I’m pretty excited as well. Seems it took google implementing it for Apple to do it as well. I guess they both kind of pushed each other. Competition is pretty good for consumers forcing innovation.
Dark mode in iOS13 is beyond the jail break inverted colors. Apple took their time to look at each iOS app and specifically designed them to look gorgeous in dark mode.