Light mode or dark mode?

[grammatica]

I use Automatic mode. I like Light Mode during the day and Dark Mode in the evening. I wish the status was synced across devices via iCloud. Seriously, my Mac turns on Dark Mode before my iPhone—it's annoying.

I know that I could set a schedule in Settings, but I don't want to change it as we go into summer time and vice versa.

 

[M5RahuL]

Usually Dark, but sometimes Light …just for a visual variety lol

 

[pw5a29]

I use a shortcut.

Lightmode when brightness >30%
Darkmode otherwise

 

[TechRunner]

I started with automatic but enjoyed dark mode so much I switched permanently.

 

[Ctrlos]

Dark mode just to conserve battery. I do like the dark icons we got last year. They've really grown on me. Hopefully we will get inverted mono icons this year with black silhouettes on a coloured background.

 

[subjonas]

I prefer light mode but I appreciate dark mode for conserving battery (for OLED screens), so I use automation to set my phone to light mode when I’m at home or work or in my car, and dark mode everywhere else (ie. when I’m not near a power outlet).

The main reason I prefer light mode is because when I try to read white text on dark background it seems to strain my eyes more, and more often I continue seeing the words when I look away from my screen, like retina “burn in”. My theory is that our eyes/brains aren’t well adapted for this because in nature there is much more often need to focus on dark small objects in ambient light (food, threats, etc) rather than small bright objects in darkness (stars, that’s about it).

 

[fatTribble]

Light mode almost always. It’s my only source of Vitamin D.

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I have it set to automatic; light when it's light, and dark when it's dark. I don't particularly like dark mode, but it's easier on the eyes in low light.

 

[ab2c4]

Do to an eye condition I have to use dark mode now.

 

[FrostByteAB]

All my devices are set to auto. I've always found it to be the best of both worlds - I prefer light mode during the day for text readability, and dark mode at night. It seems to actually help me wind down later at night, if that makes sense.

 

[nathansz]

Light mode

It’s easier on the eyes

Dark mode makes your pupils dilate more which makes your eyes have to work harder to focus

 

[VSMacOne]

Light during the day and dark in the evening. Been running this setup for a few years now.

 

[marshallbedsaul]

 

[Paddle1]

I have a schedule that switches between the two but there are a few apps I keep in permanent dark mode.

 

[DCIFRTHS]

I am currently using dark mode. I wish I could make the calendar.app use light mode though. I haven't found a 1st party way of doing this though

 

[Starfia]

Always dark, especially after waiting my whole life for it. The traditional light mode strikes me as extraordinarily alien and garish now, not to mention much closer to overwhelming. I've developed a quick JavaScript bookmarklet to snap an inversion filter on Web pages that aren't dark and don't support dark mode.

My impression was that, design-wise, the Mac defaulted to black-on-white because it was mimicking the way real paper works with ink – to be light except where darkened. I'm not sure I ever bought that, since the way real pixels work is the opposite: to be dark except where illuminated.

 

[redcarian]

I've developed a quick JavaScript bookmarklet to snap an inversion filter on Web pages that aren't dark and don't support dark mode.

Dark Reader is your friend. Works on Safari, Firefox, and Chromium-based browsers.

 

[Starfia]

Dark Reader is your friend. Works on Safari, Firefox, and Chromium-based browsers.

I certainly also use Safari Reader when I just want the signature clean view. ^ ^

 

[eyoungren]

Always dark, especially after waiting my whole life for it. The traditional light mode strikes me as extraordinarily alien and garish now, not to mention much closer to overwhelming. I've developed a quick JavaScript bookmarklet to snap an inversion filter on Web pages that aren't dark and don't support dark mode.

My impression was that, design-wise, the Mac defaulted to black-on-white because it was mimicking the way real paper works with ink – to be light except where darkened. I'm not sure I ever bought that, since the way real pixels work is the opposite: to be dark except where illuminated.

That can be traced back to iOS 7 when iOS became flat and started using bright colors. Jony Ive inspired by PlaySkool. Although iOS 6 and before were bright, iOS 7 is when it got worse.

Unicorn puke.

 

[redcarian]

I certainly also use Safari Reader when I just want the signature clean view. ^ ^

Dark Reader isn’t a reader view - it’s a browser extension that provides dark mode to all sites, optionally syncing with the system light/dark mode, using a variety of methods for darkening the view. It’s very good.

 

[DankeBrutus]

Depends on the device.

iPhone: Dark mode always (OLED, battery life)
iPad: Automatic (LCD)
MacBook Pro: Light mode always (LCD, preference)
Mac mini: Light mode always (LCD, preference + my monitor gets finicky with certain shades of grey)

 

[Starfia]

Dark Reader isn’t a reader view - it’s a browser extension that provides dark mode to all sites, optionally syncing with the system light/dark mode, using a variety of methods for darkening the view. It’s very good.

Oh, apologies – I see. With "Dark" ambiguously capitalized at the start of the sentence, I interpreted the non-proper noun "dark Reader" to mean any browser's feature called (proper noun) "Reader" set to a dark mode.

 

[joeblack007]

Dark mode all day long with True Tone and Night Shift. The easiest on my eyes.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Automatic, switching to dark half hour before sunset and light half hour after sunrise.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Dark mode on everything I can.