Ios dark mode doesnt replace smart invert accessibility

Michael ~ It depends...

"Safari and WebKit do not auto-darken web content — documents will need to opt-in to dark mode." [Source] In other words, webpage designers have to... "see if your device is in dark mode or light mode and adjust the site theme to match." Source:

Say hello to Dark Mode on iMore!

This is actually the precise reason why apple should not be forcing users who are reliant upon accessibility modes like smart invert to use dark theme. Apple appear to be too interested in satisfying demands of development community more interested in gimmicky looks rather than actual function. At present I have had to set p a number of different automations which either enable or disable smart invert or classic invert as some programs work ok in dark theme and others still work in smart invert, however some now require classic invert to be accessible as often smart invert actually inverts the dark theme so you are ostensibly working in a light theme.. As has been mentioned by others earlier it would be interesting to find out how mu;h texting was done prior to launch of dark theme and whether any accessibility testers where involved. I know that the Accessibility support tech I spoke to apple wasn’t aware of the conflicts between dark theme and smart invert.

Dark theme NEEDS to be seperate to Smart Invert, Dark theme is a visual convenience, Smart Invert is an accessibility function

I have used both safari and chrome browser and both fail with smart invert( they use black text on white background) and in both apps the keyboard is black on grey squares on a white background. However i have found that if you turn off dark mode/ smart invert and then use classic invert the keyboard in safari and chrome browsers is white on black background, mind you images and videos are reverse colours in classic invert. So best thing now is to set up an automation so that when safari/chrome opens it turns off dark mide and also enables classic invert. Not sure if this also woks in bews and messenger as i haven’t used the other apps.

the mail app is ok when working with plain text though if i receive an html format email (most are)) then i need to switch to classic invert and here again i have found that i need to disable dark mode prior to activating classic invert otherwise the keyboard is black on white

Latest update is an improvement but the os is still very unstable when using smart invert (enfirced dark mode)

mail: when typing within the message area keyboard almost always reverts to black on white

safari: had to exit safari turn off smart invert renter safari and exit again then turn smart invert back on in order to get the inverted (white on black jeyboard) And if the oage refreshes at all it will often revert to non inverted again.

youtube and similar apps are now completely inverted including thumbnails and video(just like the old classic invert)

messeges and notes do appear to work fine and stable though

If anything this latest patch has actually made things worse. I now need to use light mode with classic invert for safari and mail only works well in smart invert if it is a plain text email. Smart invert no longer renders the white backgounfmd of html webpages or emails as black. I have had to set numerous automation running diferent combinations of dark and light mode with aieither smart invert or classic invert depending upon which aps i am using

I have found that each patch in version 13 has made the issue worse and would like to roll back to version 12 however i think it best in regards to security to keep the latest IOS . i found identifying various apos that worked or didnt work with smart invert classic invert etc and set up the automation to either enable or disable helped a bit however things like sari where you need clasic invert to force the background to dark with white text you then had to switch classic invert off whenever you needed to access keyboard within safari and of course enable classic invert once finished typing or exen more frustrating just to check what you had typed, It is definitely not an ideal situation. Hopefully Apple will decide to drop Dark Mode and return our accessibility

Thank you for link to feedback oage i have submitted a note thiugh many ithers have already done so. I had also spokeb directly to apple shpport, the first person didnt know there was an issue and told ne to turn off dark mode but when i told them dark mode was connected to smart invert he was unable to helo durther. I was able to contact an appke accessibilty technician at a second phone call and she went through a number of screen and colour filter settings trying to work around the black on white background but none were successful. This technician was also unaware that there was an issue with smart invert not working with dark mode. To be honest i think Apple needs to seperate dark mode from smart invert or at least have smart invert nor trigger dark mode