Dark Mode Not Automatically Switching

[mach]

Has anyone else's Dark Mode stopped switchiing on automatically? I have it set to automatic sunrise / sunset but it is not switching to dark at sunset.

Oddly, it *is* switching back to Light mode in the morning after I manually switch Dark Mode on, and Night Shift is turning on automatically fine.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

 

[0128672]

As a test, does a custom schedule work?

 

[StuBFrost]

Has anyone else's Dark Mode stopped switchiing on automatically? I have it set to automatic sunrise / sunset but it is not switching to dark at sunset.

Oddly, it *is* switching back to Light mode in the morning.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

I presumed it was only me with this issue. I turned my phone off and on and I think it’s now ok but I’ll see in the morning.

 

[s2mike]

Has anyone else's Dark Mode stopped switchiing on automatically? I have it set to automatic sunrise / sunset but it is not switching to dark at sunset.

Oddly, it *is* switching back to Light mode in the morning.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

Same exact issue here. It's annoying to have to manually trigger dark mode. Light mode switches on its own.

 

[mach]

As a test, does a custom schedule work?

Just tried this and it does seem to work—so the automatic sunrise/sunset must be bugged. Interesting!

 

[Autokon]

Same issue here. A reboot fixed it for maybe a day. Custom schedule doesn't appear to be bugged though.

 

[deuxani]

I made another thread about this in the iPhone forum. I think it’s 14 Pro specific and is caused by the always on display.

It will not switch to dark mode as long as the screen is on, also not when the always on Lock Screen is showing. It will only switch automatically if the always on display is completely turned off in your pocket, upside on the table or in sleep focus. So as long as you can see the time on the always on display it will not change to dark mode. This seems like another annoying bug to me.

 

[0128672]

I made another thread about this in the iPhone forum. I think it’s 14 Pro specific and is caused by the always on display.

It will not switch to dark mode as long as the screen is on, also not when the always on Lock Screen is showing. It will only switch automatically if the always on display is completely turned off in your pocket, upside on the table or in sleep focus. So as long as you can see the time on the always on display it will not change to dark mode. This seems like another annoying bug to me.

No, that's not true that it's limited to the 14 Pro. I have a 2022 SE and it happened on that too.

 

[s2mike]

Anyone find a fix for this yet?

 

[s2mike]

Anyone know if iOS 16.1 fixes this issue?

 

[mach]

Anyone know if iOS 16.1 fixes this issue?

After switching it to scheduled per Wildsky’s suggestion, I tried switching it back to automatic and it’s been working now. Not sure how it made any difference, but worth a shot if you haven’t tried already.

 

[s2mike]

After switching it to scheduled per Wildsky’s suggestion, I tried switching it back to automatic and it’s been working now. Not sure how it made any difference, but worth a shot if you haven’t tried already.

Huh. Just tried this and it seems to have worked. Well, at least it worked today…hoping it continues to work.

 

[mach]

Welp, just when I thought this was resolved, today I switched to a different wallpaper, noticed after sunset no dark mode. So the bug definitely must be tied to custom wallpapers / focus modes.

 

[s2mike]

Trying to figure out if anyone on the 16.1 beta is experiencing this…

 

[s2mike]

Trying to figure out if anyone on the 16.1 beta is experiencing this…

 

[Autokon]

Sorry man. Zero fixes for this currently. Hopefully the 16.03 release rumored for release this week fixes it.

 

[s2mike]

Any chance the iOS 16.1 RC fixed this?

 

[anthonyzp]

Same issue though for me in the mornings at sunrise, dark mode remains. I have to manually toggle dark mode off at sunrise, so appears to be the other way round. Bug it seems. 16.1 next week hopefully fixes.

 

[s2mike]

Same issue though for me in the mornings at sunrise, dark mode remains. I have to manually toggle dark mode off at sunrise, so appears to be the other way round. Bug it seems. 16.1 next week hopefully fixes.

Weird — I’ve only ever seen people talk about how it fails going from light to dark mode. Interesting.

 

[s2mike]

I’ve been testing the following theory: the always-on display must not be active in order to trigger light/dark mode.

For me, the phone seemed to have no problem triggering light mode at sunrise, but would never trigger dark mode at sunset.

I began to wonder if light mode was always triggered because the phone sits on my nightstand when I’m sleeping, so the always-on display turns off after a few hours, so it then triggers light mode with no issue. I wondered if dark mode would trigger on its own if the always-on display wasn’t active…

Just now the phone was sitting next to me with the always-on display active. Sunset came and went and the phone remained in light mode. Then I flipped the phone over and had it sitting face down for ten seconds. Turned it back over and dark mode had been triggered.

So, at least in my case, the always-on display cannot be active in order to properly trigger light/dark mode.

Hope they fix that.

 

[s2mike]

iOS 16.1 seems to have fixed this.

 

[anthonyzp]

iOS 16.1 seems to have fixed this.

Hope you're right. Will report back tomorrow morning. Ah our first world problems eh? ;-)

 

[anthonyzp]

All good now.

 

[steve62388]

Still bugged for me on my iPad and 16.2. I have it set to switch with sunrise and sunset. Light mode will switch on, but dark mode will not.

 

[problemSOL]

Has anyone else's Dark Mode stopped switching on automatically?

I solved this problem by turning off “dark mode - set to dark” sleep focus filter, looks like it has priority over sunset option and system just waiting for this focus status to kick in.