

This will turn on Night Shift when the sun goes down, and turn it off when you wake up.Īpple didn’t invent Night Shift though. Under the “Night Shift” tab, you’ll find an option to enable it from Sunset to Sunrise. Open the “Displays” category in System Preferences. If you usually stay up staring at your screens, it might be worth giving this a try to save you a literal headache. Night shift changes the color of your display to seem warmer (more orange) at nighttime since prolonged exposure to overly blue light can strain your eyes. Unfortunately, this also makes all the accents very dull, which does look a bit strange, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to get this flat black color without using the Graphite accent.

It changes from a bluish-gray to a flat gray color, which you may prefer. Surprisingly, setting the accent color to “Graphite,” the gray color, makes dark mode slightly darker.

This will determine the color of buttons and any highlights in native apps. There’s another feature to set here: the accent color. You can click either one to switch to the corresponding mode. The option for Dark mode is in the System Preferences app, which you can open from the Dock, your Applications folder, or by clicking the Apple icon at the top of your screen and selecting “System Preferences.” When you’re there, click on “General.”Īt the top of the window, you’ll see the toggle between light mode and dark mode.
