Dark mode in iPhone

How to enable Dark Mode in iPhone and iPad

Dark Mode in iPhone and iPad

Hello Guys, One of the coolest feature introduced by Apple in its latest iOS 13 release is dark mode. This makes iPhone screen to look dark which provides great viewing experience especially in night and low light conditions. Once you enable dark mode then default light theme of an iPhone turns black and color of text becomes brighter for better visibility. This will make less strain in your eyes when you using it in low light conditions. Dark Mode is available in both iOS 13 and iPadOS. The best part is Apple's own suit of apps support dark mode out of the box and Apps developed by third party developers will start supporting dark mode functionality once they push new updates to their apps after integrating dark mode related code .

You can enable dark mode in your iPhone and iPad in many ways. So without wasting any more time let's find out what are the different ways to enable dark mode in iPhone and iPad having iOS 13 and iPad OS.

Turn on Dark Mode with Settings

The first way to turn On Dark mode is through settings. So let's see what steps we need to follow using settings.

• Go to settings  app.

Open settings

•     Press Display & Brightness

Open Display & Brightness     

At the top you will be able to see two options light and dark. Just press dark to enable dark model.

Turn on Dark Mode with Siri

The second way to turn on Dark mode is with Siri. We simply need to tell Siri, "Hey Siri, turn on dark mode", It will enables dark mode immediately.

To turn it off just say " Hey Siri, turn off dark mode". It will disable the dark mode and enable light theme automatically.

Turn on Dark Mode with Control Center

If you have an iPhone X style device or an iPad then swipe down from top right corner of the screen and if you are using iPhone with home button then swipe up from bottom to open the Control Center

Setting dark mode through Control Center

Now tap and hold the Brightness indicator which is having sun icon. Now you will see a toggle for Appearance Light in lower left corner. Just press it and dark mode will get enabled in your iPhone. If you want to disable the dark mode then you can press that icon again.

Dark mode toggle button in Control Center

Adding toggle button for enabling dark mode in Control Center

If you are little bit lazy like me then you must want a dedicated toggle button in your Control Center Let's see how we can add that dedicated button.

• To enable it, go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls.

Control Center

• From Here, Tap on "+" button next to Dark Mode

Add dark mode toggle button

This will add a dedicated toggle button for dark mode at the bottom of the Control Center. Just tap on that that button to enable and disable dark mode in your iPhone. Now there is no need to go first to Brightness indicator and then enable dark mode. You can press that dedicated button which you just created for turning On and Off Dark Mode.

Scheduling Dark Mode

Yes, You heard it right . We can also schedule dark mode  For this, we just need to open Settings app and got to Display & Brightness.

Automatic Toggle for dark mode

From Appearance section, we can tap on Automatic toggle button and then tap on options to switch between "sunset to sunrise" option and "custom" schedule options. If we select the "custom schedule "option then Dark Mode gets enabled automatically at the specified timing.

Benefits of using Dark Mode.
As we are now aware of how to enable dark mode in our iPhone and iPad having iOS 13 , Now Let's see what are the benefits of using Dark Mode.

• Dark Mode put less strain on your eyes when you are using in low light environment.

• It increase battery life because it takes less power for OLED (Organic light emitting diode) screens to emit dark color than brighter ones. However Apple didn't list explicitly this an advantage. But this is certainly true for OLED screens not for LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screens because in OLED, every pixel light up to create an image . So when you turn on the Dark Mode your phone shuts off the pixels you don't need . While  in case of LCD screens, it uses backlight regardless of any color scheme.More difference between LCD and OLED can be found at Difference between LCD and OLED in iPhones

• Whenever you use mail, books or safari , the text will appear mostly white in dark backgrounds making it easier for you to read. 

I hope you had enjoyed this article 🙂 and now you will be able to enable Dark Mode in your iPhone with few clicks. Also check my post what's new features introduced by Apple in iOS 13 to know some other cool features of iOS 13.