AfricanTech
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I'm very happy with Dark Mode on all my Apple devices -does the job and is certainly kinder to my clinically light-sensitive eyes
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SauRoNZA
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Turn down the brightness. It’s really that simple.
The burn is the brightness, not the colour.
Now instead you’ve taken it all away and make it infinitely harder to read and in doing so added the eye strain you were taking away.
SauRoNZA
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Again, just turn down the brightness.
You don’t need it to be dark.
And white/grey text on a dark background is terrible for reading and eye strain.
And for anyone who has astigmatism it’s a complete **** show.
AfricanTech
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For me the swathes of white on a screen is way worse than white on black and turning down the brightness means I can't see so lekker
DA-LION-619
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I feel attacked
Mike Hoxbig
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It's not about scientific anything for me, it's just less strain and more comfortable on my eyes. And if you have an OLED display, it will preserve battery life too...
Mike Hoxbig
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I've tried that, it doesn't help. Still feels very uncomfortable being bombarded with all that white.
What I don't get is seeing project managers and business people projecting their MS Office in dark mode like some wannabe coders. On your laptop there's no need for it especially when you're working during day...
Dave
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Mike Hoxbig
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It's woke. The other colour would be racist...Sounds quite racist...
SauRoNZA
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It’s a placebo really, one easily addressed by having a good light sensor to adjust auto brightness.
It’s 1:45 in the morning as I type this on a perfectly white but low brightness background because my youngest was having a nightmare.
It’s not straining on the eyes at all. Dark mode on the other hand would make it hard to read what I’m typing in the same low light environment.
Battery life? Sure but it’s a paper value and really not worth it for what is ultimately worse for your eyes.
Furthermore, as someone with serious astigmatism it’s basically impossible to use as all the text is constantly moving and shaking in dark mode.
Flipping between those two, yes sure it seems like the white may be more straining at first glance until you actually read the words and realise how much easier to read the text is when it’s the contrast of black on white.
Dark mode fails at contrast which is what you need for less eye strain.
In a perfect world dark mode would have been adjusting the white to a similar tone of grey as the background of the keyboard, rather than making it all black.
The True Tone display that keeps the contrast constant and Night Shift that warms up the colour at night is really all you need.
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Rouxenator
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Eina - too much light in that last pic.
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Suspect99
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He's a apple user.
SauRoNZA
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Because readability and therefore eye strain is about contrast, not brightness.
SauRoNZA
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I don’t.
There are legitimately people who can benefit from dark mode, just like there are those who benefit from high contrast or colour blindness modes.
However, for the vast majority it’s a sham of “coolness” and they are actually damaging their eyes while using it and adding additional strain.
SauRoNZA
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Astigmatism and dark mode don’t work together.
The text starts “moving” or “buzzes” for lack of a better explanation and makes it infinitely more difficult to read.
Why dark mode causes more accessibility issues than it solves
Dark mode. Isnât it marvellous? All cool and trendy and accessible and sustainable. Or maybe notâ¦
The problem is many people (yourself being enlightened now I bet) don’t know this and push through dark mode for it’s cool factor and supposedly being better for their eyes while there is no actual basis for this and then in cases like these make it far worse.
That’s not a small number.
SauRoNZA
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Another good summary of why dark mode really isn’t all that.
www.wired.co.uk
It doesn’t cover the benefits of simply removing blue light without going dark mode via colour tone **** for bedtime sadly.
Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe
The shadowy display mode has leagues of fans claiming it helps reduce eye strain, lengthen battery time and improve sleep. But dark mode isn't quite the screen saviour it's made out to be
It doesn’t cover the benefits of simply removing blue light without going dark mode via colour tone **** for bedtime sadly.
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Some people just need to try it once and be comfortable being dictated to how or what you can use on your device. A pain in a rectum just trying to move a few documents from a PC to a iPhone/ iPad when it takes a few seconds with an android device. I have had 3 iPhones over the last 10 years and 2 Ipads and am never going back.
AfricanTech
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Another good summary of why dark mode really isn’t all that.
Dark mode isn't as good for your eyes as you believe
The shadowy display mode has leagues of fans claiming it helps reduce eye strain, lengthen battery time and improve sleep. But dark mode isn't quite the screen saviour it's made out to be
It doesn’t cover the benefits of simply removing blue light without going dark mode via colour tone **** for bedtime sadly.
Good article.
Supports my use case too
"However, eye conditions causing a sensitivity to light such as photophobia or keratoconus or those suffering loss of vision might benefit from the inky display mode."
Saves battery too...
"The iPhone X was the first Apple phone to launch with an OLED screen. Other phones with OLED displays include the Samsung Galaxy S10 and the Huawei Mate P30. For these phones, dark mode can offer healthy battery saving capabilities. A report from iFixIt found there was a 63 per cent drop in power usage for an Android phone displaying a screenshot of Google Maps in night mode."
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SauRoNZA
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On the flip side if you didn’t have a PC and instead used a Mac you could Airdrop it.
Or if you just used iCloud in the first place you’d never even need to think about moving it.
And this is a perfect example why inversely people won’t leave Apple because it works in their workflow and switching to Android would break that entirely.
The problems you mention literally don’t exist for people who have gone all in on Apple. But if they suddenly switch to Android they are in for a wild time of a broken mess.
But on the modern world of the cloud one has to ask why are documents even being moved to your phone? For what purpose? Why aren’t they in Google Docs or OneDrive or any variety of cloud service where documents should live.
These “issues” people mention so often just simply don’t exist for most people. So I often wonder if the people citing them are living horribly broken lives, or simply using kak examples that don’t apply in reality.
It’s the same as the eternal using your flash drive as a phone nonsense? Do people ACTUALLY do that? Do people actually use flash drives still?
AfricanTech
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I simply love the ability to copy and paste text between my phone and my macbook