

That being said, constantly switching my themes back and forth seemed both daunting and absurd. Dark mode may be great as the sun sets, but in the morning, I need to either give up my view or embrace the light. Suddenly, I found myself cursing my entirely dark interface. I never thought I needed sunglasses in the winter, but oh boy, the snow and ice sure can cause a glare. Though beautiful, it soon revealed a problem: Third party apps that can automatically switchĭishonorable mentions: Third party apps that don’t have automatic switchingĪt the end of 2020, I was at my grandmother’s old house in Massachusetts and in a COVID bubble with my parents for the winter. Now, ready to prepare your system for dark/light mode auto-switching? We'll cover: Let us build you an app that can switch light and dark themes. In the last decade, I have loved watching as many different sites and applications have added their own dark themes that can be toggled on.Īt Highland, we use TailwindCSS, a utility-first CSS framework that makes it easy to implement dark and light mode styles as you build. (I’m glad I have no evidence to show you.) Today, everything on my computer is set to run in dark mode. Thinking back, the first HTML I wrote at a summer nerd camp was a jet-black website with red accents.

I have been using dark backgrounds and themes for a long time.
#MAC OS DARK MODE SWITCH HOW TO#
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could enable the light mode theme to auto-switch itself on your Mac, in the evening hours or whenever your eyes feel strained? That’s exactly what I’m going to show you how to do.
