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iPhone Siri - Enable Dark Mode; 'Sorry can't change that setting'
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Unless that's perhaps a reference to enabling the silent switch as can be done via Asssistive Touch.
Quiet mode does exist in a way ... it could be a reference to when you turn the ringer off and have the vibrator on only. Just like with Dark Mode and how it responded to multiple phrases - Dark Mode, Dark Theme - same thing with Quiet Mode, it could be referring to Silent Mode when you have the ringer off - Silent Mode, Quiet Mode.
It could be app permissions or who knows what that it cant change that setting even though it exists.
I get the same response when I ask siri to lower the volume ... she said she can't change that setting even though it does exit and we all know it does exits ... it could be apple developers that have disabled siri permissions to change volume.
Siri's responses to Dark Theme are quiet different ... its not a random thing:
Enable Dark Theme
Is Dark Theme On
Toggle Dark Theme
And all of the responses every single time indicate its a Setting ... none of that happens with the other stuff.
It could be app permissions or who knows what that it cant change that setting even though it exists.
I get the same response when I ask siri to lower the volume ... she said she can't change that setting even though it does exit and we all know it does exits ... it could be apple developers that have disabled siri permissions to change volume.
Siri's responses to Dark Theme are quiet different ... its not a random thing:
Enable Dark Theme
Is Dark Theme On
Toggle Dark Theme
And all of the responses every single time indicate its a Setting ... none of that happens with the other stuff.
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Possible other explanation, there were earlier reports that Siri might be recognizing desktop commands, and as there is a dark theme on the desktop, this might just be confirmation of desktop Siri rather than iOS dark mode 
I explain that by saying the probability of dark mode in iOS 10 is 10X higher now.
Yes I think the fact that all the WWDC banners have a black background means something. And I don't think it's just related to Xcode. Honestly if Apple announced dark mode on iOS, Siri on the Mac and Xcode for iPad Pro the crowd would go nuts. Throw in finder on iOS and someone might faint.
Appleinsider is running with the story.
I think they published it just in the last few minutes.
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I think they published it just in the last few minutes.
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Like I said before, turn your phone screen off and on and then ask the question.
Its probably a bug with Siri, if the first thing you ask her is a setting, anything you ask her to enable afterwards she'll think is a setting as well - turn the screen off and on and this will fix it.
I just did that and now it doesn't know what Walmart mode is.
If you do that with Dark Mode; turn the screen on and off - she will still say its a setting.
It all depends on what the resting mode of an LCD panel is, black or white. That is, whether or not the crystals default to passing light up through the second polarizer, when _not_ activated by power.
As it turns out, while older type (e.g. TN) LCDs do usually default to a white resting mode (meaning it takes slightly less power to be all white)...
... IPS LCDs such as the display used in the iPhone default to a black (okay, really dark gray) rest mode. Thus, it takes more power to activate the crystals to let the light through to make a white screen.
So, a dark mode will use less power on both LCD and OLED iPhone displays.
That doesn't really count.
Siri for iOS 6 gives the same response as long as it detects "Enable *", with * being any phrase.
Feel free to try asking it "Enable Blue Mode", or "Enable Dartmouh", or "Enable Dancer" after initial screen unlock and initiating Siri initially.
That certainly seems like a rather plausible explanation that sounds like potentially more probable one too.Possible other explanation, there were earlier reports that Siri might be recognizing desktop commands, and as there is a dark theme on the desktop, this might just be confirmation of desktop Siri rather than iOS dark mode
They are probably making changes to Siri as we speak so that they can show off Siri 2.0 on the stage. Anyway, all the WWDC banners are a dark background, as are the invitations, I'd be very surprised if we didn't see a Dark Mode for iOS.
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Blue mode for a blue iPhone
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In about 8 hours, all will be revealed. Rooting for blue mode myself!
Blue mode for a blue iPhone
It will be interesting to see if Apple does try to shift things from white to black / gray background. It was not all that long ago that computing was colored type on a black background (I remember writing papers in college using the precursor to current word processing programs where the text was green on a black background), but that did not last long and things shifted to be more like the printed world, of black (or colored) text on a white background.