With the release of the third Yosemite developer beta this week, however, Apple has now officially enabled dark mode via a System Preferences setting. Here’s how developers can enable dark mode now, and where everyone else will be able to find the feature when Yosemite ships this fall.

Note: this article has been updated to reflect the new checkbox introduced in the fourth Yosemite beta. Head to System Preferences > General. There, you’ll see a new checkbox called “Use dark menu bar and Dock.” When unchecked, the OS X theme will remain the default white that we’ve all come to know and love. Check the box, however, and you’ll see a new side of OS X, where the Menu Bar and Dock background change to a darker color, and black Menu Bar text inverts to white. As a beta, the feature is not quite fully baked. While it’s certainly usable in most cases, it looks like third party developers will have to update their apps to support it.

As it stands, any third party apps that utilize Menu Bar icons don’t switch over to white, and become difficult to read on the black Menu Bar background. First party Apple icons look great, however, and offer a nice preview of what’s to come. But OS X Yosemite’s dark mode won’t be right for everyone. If you find yourself missing the traditional look and feel of your favorite operating system, you can easily switch back to the default view by jumping back to System Preferences and unchecking the referenced box. Software for ntfs on mac. Want news and tips from TekRevue delivered directly to your inbox?

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5:43 'Today we're excited to take the Mac a huge leap forward,' Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, said on stage. New features include: • Dark Mode, which makes the software easier on your eyes at night. • Desktop Stacks, which organizes the clutter on your desktop.

It brings together file types like documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and more. • Gallery View, a new view in Finder that shows a big preview up top and thumbnails along the bottom. It lets you do things like more easily rotate images. A feature called Quick Actions lets you create password-protected PDFs.

• Screenshots are improved. You'll be able to mark them up and adjust them more easily, like you can on an iPhone. • Continuity Camera. In the Keynote app, you can select a photo from your phone and it instantly appears where it needs to be in the slideshow.

• Native Apple apps -- like Apple News, Stocks, Home and Voice Memos -- are coming to the Mac. • The Mac App Store gets a redesign, with a focus on editorial picks and discovery. Last year's update didn't include major changes but instead featured slight variations from 2016's Sierra. Most of the improvements were performance-focused.