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iOS 10.3 theatre mode

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Rogifan said:
Certainly seems like something that could be faked. Why in the world would Apple announce something like dark mode in a point update? Wouldn't they save something like that for WWDC?
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Well, point updates have been brining more at times for a little while. Similar thoughts were expressed about Night Shift and iOS 9.3 last year too.
 
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iphnhelp

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I agree. Suspicious. Looking at past posts though seems like there's a chance it's legit.

If you add it all up:

  • Early iOS 10 builds having vague references to dark mode plus the dark settings screenshots, etc.
  • Rumors of dark mode coming going back to that time
  • Recent suggestion by Sonny Dickson
  • This guy's Insta
A lot of smoke, there's probably some sort of fire. All these could easily be explained away. But I'm optimistic something dark is coming. And it's fun to anticipate and speculate.
 
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iphnhelp said:
I agree. Suspicious. Looking at past posts though seems like there's a chance it's legit.

If you add it all up:

  • Early iOS 10 builds having vague references to dark mode plus the dark settings screenshots, etc.
  • Rumors of dark mode coming going back to that time
  • Recent suggestion by Sonny Dickson
  • This guy's Insta
A lot of smoke, there's probably some sort of fire. All these could easily be explained away. But I'm optimistic something dark is coming. And it's fun to anticipate and speculate.
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Something to consider is that given the rumored name of the feature (and control center icon design) if it included more to it than something along the lines of a dark mode, like it would also silence notifications, perhaps dim the screen, etc. Kind of similar to how Low Power Mode does a number of different things and essentially locks them out from being changed back while it's enabled. Everyone who is mainly interested in a darker interface might not really be as happy about other things being changed as well.
 
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iphnhelp

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Very true. I would speculate that perhaps it's both. A setting for a dark UI overall. And a control center switch to toggle a theater mode which switches to superlow brightness, dark ui, no alerts, etc. That's what I'm hoping anyway.
 
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iphnhelp said:
Very true. I would speculate that perhaps it's both. A setting for a dark UI overall. And a control center switch to toggle a theater mode which switches to superlow brightness, dark ui, no alerts, etc. That's what I'm hoping anyway.
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I think there will be quite a few people who will be disappointed if that's what it is and those additional changes/restrictions couldn't be disabled, given that many simply would like an option to have a darker UI and essentially nothing beyond that.
 
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gwhizkids said:
Do you really think an Apple employee would post anything about an upcoming release on Instagram? Their next job title would be "ex-Apple Employee".
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Why not? It's a few days away from beta release in an x.x update. It won't be released to the public before March.
 
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So night shift was 64-bit devices only. kinda worried they'll make some similar restriction for theatre mode, like 2gb ram devices only. :-/
 
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stevemiller said:
So night shift was 64-bit devices only. kinda worried they'll make some similar restriction for theatre mode, like 2gb ram devices only. :-/
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I would be really surprised if they did that. From what I'm understanding about how this will work, I don't think it requires too many resources. They may just leave it out of the iPhone 5 and iPad 4 or limit it like how they didn't add the blur effect to the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 and 3 everywhere, just in the folders and the dock.
 
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Aditya_S said:
I would be really surprised if they did that. From what I'm understanding about how this will work, I don't think it requires too many resources. They may just leave it out of the iPhone 5 and iPad 4 or limit it like how they didn't add the blur effect to the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 and 3 everywhere, just in the folders and the dock.
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I am hoping my 6 is supported, but I'm a little wary.

Also concerned that it'll just change notification bubbles and dock colours, and the majority of things will remain light. We'll see I guess.
 
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