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Turn OFF dark mode--completely and forever!

My problem is turning off dark mode completely. I see the "auto" selection as well as dark and light. Even when I choose "light," the screen ALWAYS goes to dark at a certain light level automatically anyway. I want to choose light manually and keep it that way. I'm using Mac OS Big Sur.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Jun 2, 2021 12:24 PM

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Posted on Jun 2, 2021 12:37 PM

elenafromtempe wrote:

My problem is turning off dark mode completely. I see the "auto" selection as well as dark and light. Even when I choose "light," the screen ALWAYS goes to dark at a certain light level automatically anyway. I want to choose light manually and keep it that way. I'm using Mac OS Big Sur.


See if there is anything here: How to use Dark Mode on your Mac


If no resolve try a safeboot to clear system cache files


SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262


Reboot as normal. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

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Jun 2, 2021 12:37 PM in response to elenafromtempe

elenafromtempe wrote:

My problem is turning off dark mode completely. I see the "auto" selection as well as dark and light. Even when I choose "light," the screen ALWAYS goes to dark at a certain light level automatically anyway. I want to choose light manually and keep it that way. I'm using Mac OS Big Sur.


See if there is anything here: How to use Dark Mode on your Mac


If no resolve try a safeboot to clear system cache files


SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262


Reboot as normal. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

Turn OFF dark mode--completely and forever!

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