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C DM

macrumors Sandy Bridge
Oct 17, 2011
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Well the reason its an option in macOS is for those with dark wallpapers. The light menu bar and like dock with a dark wallpaper looks awful. This is not a problem in iOS.
There's certainly the part that some of the reasons might be different and that there might be some hurdles here and there, but I believe it's doable to some degree at least that many would find useful in some way.
 

Mlrollin91

macrumors G5
Nov 20, 2008
14,172
10,187
There's certainly the part that some of the reasons might be different and that there might be some hurdles here and there, but I believe it's doable to some degree at least that many would find useful in some way.

I still fail to see what is so enticing about a dark mode. I think those that want it don't even know how they would want it implemented. So what, Settings app is now dark, instead of light? Because people spend so much time in Settings? Safari, we already discussed how that cannot work. Messages? Okay, so a dark keyboard, black background instead of white. Calendar, again, black instead of white. This will not keep consistency with 3rd party apps, it will not change the lock screen or home screen. I just don't understand the large appeal. When you break it down app by app, it makes less and less sense. Unlike AppleTV which is to reduce the brightness in a dark room, and macOS to match wallpaper.
 

C DM

macrumors Sandy Bridge
Oct 17, 2011
51,392
19,461
I still fail to see what is so enticing about a dark mode. I think those that want it don't even know how they would want it implemented. So what, Settings app is now dark, instead of light? Because people spend so much time in Settings? Safari, we already discussed how that cannot work. Messages? Okay, so a dark keyboard, black background instead of white. Calendar, again, black instead of white. This will not keep consistency with 3rd party apps, it will not change the lock screen or home screen. I just don't understand the large appeal. When you break it down app by app, it makes less and less sense. Unlike AppleTV which is to reduce the brightness in a dark room, and macOS to match wallpaper.
Well, again, even simply just taking invert colors mode and tweaking it a little would do a decent job showing what it would be like and what many would find useful in some fashion.
 

ThunderMasterMind

macrumors 6502a
Apr 29, 2016
543
521
I really do want a dark mode in iOS, if not, then the old iOS design that had multiple interfaces and wasn't nearly as stressful on the eyes as the white trash interface now.
 
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