“Apple’s big WWDC 2016 keynote was packed full of announcements from start to finish. The company didn’t unveil a single piece of new hardware on Monday, but all the new software features in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra were more than enough to keep fans busy in the days that followed,” Zach Epstein reports for BGR. “Of course, two hours wasn’t nearly enough time to go over all of the changes Apple made in what the company is calling its biggest iOS update ever.”
“Now that iOS 10 beta 1 has been released, we’ve uncovered dozens of features Apple didn’t go over on stage,” Epstein reports. “Some new features coming to iOS 10 this fall haven’t even been implemented in the iOS 10 beta yet, and the hottest one has just been found hiding deep within Apple’s iOS 10 beta 1 code.”
“That’s right, the much sought-after ‘dark mode’ feature everyone has been buzzing about is indeed coming to iOS,” Epstein reports. “Enabling dark mode sets iOS’s background to black and it darkens all of the colors of the interface.”
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MacDailyNews Take: This will be a very welcome addition for our iOS devices!
This is one of the example of trivial UI/UX option that are unnecessary to be an option. UI designers should know the best way to experience an OS without making user setting up too much settings and preference. Sure, give some flexibility to user to change some options, but the next thing you know everything will have options and preferences to a point where it is becoming an Android
Pretty sure you don’t have to go in and tweak any settings if you don’t want to. I like having options, though. One size does not fit all. My wife will surely appreciate this one when I’m still on my phone in bed!
Nonsense, this is a necessary option. I’m sick of being blinded in the middle of the night.
The point is not about whether to put in the feature or not, but the part where user have to do something to use the feature. It’s developer’s and manufacturer’s job to know what’s best for user without user knowing them.
To put it simply, ask everything what user wants, how does the device and OS ended up?
Anything that quells the “blinding white show” will be welcome to me. Now just convince some idiot developers that grey text on a white field is not a good idea, lol
When iPhones have OLED screens – a couple of years from now – dark screen will consume less battery than light screen. Maybe Apple is introducing dark mode to iOS in anticipation of OLED screens.
Exactly; Apple waited for years when OLEDs will finally not pervert colours or not kill the battery too fast, but with white backgrounds they will still kill the battery much faster than IPS LCD, it is inevitable due to laws of physics.
Second factor that has made OLEDs possible on iPhone is bigger size of devices versus most of previous years, what means bigger battery.
So yes, the dark theme will help with energy saving on OLED.