iOS Smart invert is often called as iOS dark mode.
Unfortunately like MacOS Apple still didn't release any full fledged dark mode in iOS 12 or in iOS 11.
Whatever existing smart invert is almost identical to dark mode.
I think thats why many users concider it as iOS dark mode.
Anyway this video is meant to be a complete guideline on iOS smart invert.
If you keep watching this video you will learn approximately 7 tricks to leverage iOS smart invert features.
And I bet you didn't see all of these in a single video before.
Okay lets go ahead and enable dark mode first.
We need to go to settings, general, accessibility, display accommodations, invert colors.
And then tap on this smart invert toggle button.
We can see a sudden black out.
Lets browse around the settings app.
And we can see everything looks pretty cool.
Lets check home screen. Aaa here we see home screen wallpaper is not inverted at all.
Lets go ahead and check some other apps. For example Calendar.
And we can see Calender is fully inverted.
Now if we check app store.
We see rather than pictures and logos almost everything is inverted.
Now we will open safari.
And we can see safari looks chilling dark.
Now the only problem is as said before we didn't get a full dark mode home screen.
Well iOS provids a built in dark wallpaper.
I think Apple provides it to be used with iOS dark mode or iOS smart invert.
Now if you blend it with iOS smart invert I think we will be one step closer to a true dark mode
Lets enable the black wallpaper.
Open settings, wallpaper, choose a new wallpaper, stills.
And then if we go bottom of the window we will see an abstruct black wallpaper.
Lets tap on it.
Then tap on set.
Set both.
With a dark wallpaper along with smart invert now our device is very closer to a true dark mode.
Lets go back and open smart invert settings again.
If you are familiar with classic invert you can tap on this classic invert toggle button.
I personally don't like classic invert as it inverts everything including the home screen icons and even the photos.
But as said if you want to enable a true invert you can turn on classic invert.
Well with smart invert enabled we see small gray backgrounds.
I think iOS did it for better visibility purpose.
But if you wan a very dark feeling you can remove these grayed parts too.
To do this we need to tap on this reduce white point toggle button.
Now we can see gray parts are disappeared.
If we want we can control intensity of brightness.
I always keep this settings around 60%.
Because if you make it full whenever you disable smart invert you will see very low light screen.
But take my word you if you make it 100% you will barely see what is on the screen.
So my recommendation is better keep it something around 60% to 70%.
Now we will talk about color filter.
If you are a color blind like me probably you have sensitivity to high contrast screen
If so you can use this color filter option.
Lets enable color fielter.
And here we can see several options.
If you select greyscale everything will be greyed out.
I mean it will be something like a black and white television.
Unfortunately iOS screen recorder didn't record the greyscale mode.
It means this feature is mostly relevant to hardware.
And this is very good news for us
Because it means it is tightly relevent to our iPhone battery life.
Whenever we enable grey scale we save a lot power which is usually drained to produce
beautiful colors.
Now we see grey scale disease is not always bad.
And we don't always need to find a cure as Khalisi ordered to Jorah mormont.
Well if you are interested you can play with other options and see which one better suit to your eyes.
If you wanna switch between normal and dark mode frequently you can create a shortcut.
And we can put it in our control center.
Lets open settings, control center.
Then customize controls.
Then we need to tap on this plus icon of accessibility shortcuts.
Now accessibility shortcuts is added to control center.
Now if we open control center we see it on the bottom of the screen.
Lets tap on it.
Then tap on smart invert colours.
Interestingly from now you can enable or disable iOS dark mode by pressing home button three times.
If you press home button 3 times dark mode itself will be inverted.
I mean if it is enabled it will be disabled and if it is disabled it will be enabled
Okay one last handy tip.
If you want you can visit this website to see how your desired app will look like in dark mode.
This website is handy when you plan to use an app in dark mode and before downloading
just wanna see whether it supports dark mode or not.
Check description for the website link.
Well we are aproaching end of this video.
And I hope this was a complete guideline on iOS 11 and iOS 12 dark mode.
Along with smart invert if you play with these other settings I think you will be able get a very MacOS identical
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