Dark mode stuck on iPhone 13 iOS 16

I can’t figure out why it happened or how to fix it, but my iPhone 13 switched itself to dark mode and I can’t get it to turn off. I’ve restarted my phone several times and it will start up regularly, but when I start navigating around and opening apps, it switches itself to dark mode. Can anyone help? Thank you!

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Posted on Nov 27, 2022 9:26 PM

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Posted on Jun 2, 2024 1:57 PM

Hi, I solved this another way. Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap > Double Tap > Classic Invert. Then I ‘double back-tapped’ the phone twice, and it was back to normal.


I think this problem happened to me because I switched phones. The old one had a home button set up for accessibility-dark mode. The settings transfer to the new phone maybe had something to do with it.

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Jun 26, 2023 7:59 AM in response to babushki

Not sure if this will be helpful for anyone having this issue but we had a 14 Pro here that seemed to be stuck in Dark mode despite hard reboot and fiddling with the Dark/Light settings in Settings Display/Brightness. For this particular phone we were able to resolve the issue by turning off Smart Invert under settings - Accessibility - Display & Text Size. Hope this can help someone else too.

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Dark mode stuck on iPhone 13 iOS 16

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