If you want macOS to switch between Light and Dark modes at specific times rather than at sunrise and sunset, you can take advantage of Night Shift to define when changes occur.
Dark Mode is a great macOS feature that transforms the user interface, a light color design, a dark color version. Its introduction was welcomed for many reasons, especially by users who wanted their desktop to be much darker than macOS previously would have allowed.
However, one element of the dark mode feature is that macOS can automatically switch between light and dark modes to adapt to the Sun's movements. General of work of the preferences in Appearance, where you can select between light, dark or Automatic.
When è selezionato Car, the mode will automatically switch between light and dark settings. The change is dictated by the user's local sunrise and sunset, which will vary each day depending on the data extracted from Apple's servers.
This is useful for telling users that it is "at night" (although sunset rarely corresponds to what is meant by night - at least in Mediterranean cultures) and for making the screen darker by adapting to the supposedly lower ambient light conditions.
However, Apple doesn't offer an easy way to directly control what time settings will change. Users aren't presented with an obvious setting to tell when macOS should switch modes.
One way to "trick" your Mac into switching modes might be to play around with changing the time zone, but other than that it might interfere with using your Mac in other ways, it will cost you more work than manually changing the time zone. modality. from System Preferences.
If there was the possibility to manually set when the aspect mode is changed, it could be used, for example, to let a user know that, with the color change, his working day is over, becoming a visual warning that affects the 'whole user interface.
That manual method exists, but it's a trick that requires you to get there using a different path.
Presentation of the night shift
A second aspect related feature, Night Shift can silently change the monitor's warmth over time. The theory is that a gradual adjustment will subconsciously inform the body that bedtime or evening is approaching, making the user more relaxed.
Although the reasoning does not seem to have much real scientific basis, as far as we are concerned today it is irrelevant.
Night Shift's custom schedule also affects when dark mode is on.
Night Shift is similar to dark mode in that it can be set to match local sunrise and sunset. But it differs in many respects, for example that it is a fully developed component with a greater number of options, which allows for customized programming of when activated.
You can define the start and end time of the night shift (night shift translation), so that it can run on a fixed schedule instead of changing every day.
While this type of control doesn't exist when you automatically enable dark mode in macOS, changing the schedule in Night Shift turns it on. While not a documented feature of macOS itself, it is required to configure the dark mode schedule.
How to set up manual dark mode schedule in macOS
- Click the Apple logo in the menu bar and then click System Preference.
- click on General.
- Under Appearance, select Automatic.
- Click to return to System Preferences.
- click on Screens.
- click on Night shift.
- In the Schedule drop-down menu, select custom.
- Enter the time interval in which you want to run dark mode.
This will affect both Night Shift and the Dark Mode option, something you'll need to consider. Since the two are linked this way and you're actually using Night Shift to handle dark mode, you'll either have to deal with either operating together at the same time or minimize the effects of Night Shift so that it only affects dark mode.
To do this, you can change the color temperature slider in the Night Shift menu as far to the left as possible (Less warm). This changes. when the critical moment comes, Night Shift has no effect on the screen, but at least you won't see the orange screen.
There is also a checkbox for “Activate until tomorrow”, which should affect Night Shift, but it also affects Dark Mode when used in this way. Selecting this will activate dark mode and the night shift, although if you've set the latter to the Least hot setting, it will actually only enable dark mode.
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