Usually our users report websites that are not properly converted to dark mode and we fix them within a week or so.īesides enabling dark mode, Night Eye offers other customisation tools such as Blue light filters, screen dimming, contrast level adjustments, scheduling dark mode and whitelisting specific websites. Night Eye has been recognised across the internet and stands out from other similar extensions for 2 main things - it offers smooth dark mode across wide spectrum of websites and offers user support to anyone using it. Once it’s in the Dock, click the Dark-Light app icon to launch it.Night Eye - Dark Mode extension for Safari.Now find the Dark-Light app (or whatever you named it) and drag the app icon to your Dock if you’d like instant access to it. At this point, you can quit Automator.The Automator application is being saved in the Automator folder in iCloud as “Dark-Light” Make sure that the File Format selected is “Application”, then click Save. You’ll also need to select a location in which to save the newly-created application I chose to save it into the Automator folder in iCloud so that I could share the application between Macs. Select File > Save… from the menu bar, and give the application an appropriate name (Dark-Light, for example). Now we need to save this as a standalone application.The Automator window should now look like this:ĭrag the “Change System Appearance” action from the list at left to the workflow area at right From the list of actions on the left side of the Automator window, select “Change System Appearance” and drag that action to the light gray area on the right side marked “Drag actions or files here to build your workflow”. This is a very simple Automator action, with only one step.Select “Application” as the type of Automator document to be created, then click the Choose button. Click the Application icon, as we wish to create a self-running workflow (highlighted in red in the image below), then click the Choose button.The button is on the lower left side of the dialog (see screenshot below):Ĭlick “New Document” (highlighted in red) to create a new Automator action Click the New Document button on the Automator Open dialog that appears.You can see this icon at the top of this article.
It’s found in the Applications folder and has a very recognizable icon – a little robot holding a piece of pipe.
To make things as simple as possible, we’ll create an Automator application that does one thing – toggles between dark and light modes. It’s used to create workflows that can be saved as standalone applications, run under Automator, or set up as “Quick Actions” that are added to Finder, Touch Bar, and the Services menu. In my personal opinion, macOS Automator is an underused application. Today I’ll show you a way to toggle between dark and light modes with just one click. Usually this requires launching System Preferences, clicking the “General” pane, then selecting the Appearance as Light or Dark. While I’m a huge fan of macOS Catalina’s dark mode on my Mac, there are some times I really want to get back into the light.