Auto Darkish Mode will get new options and reliability enhancements in newest replace

Computerized theme switching is a typical function of each working system these days. Microsoft, for some purpose, does not need (or cannot) implement such a fundamental functionality (very annoying), so customers should resort to third-party apps like Auto Darkish Mode. The latter has obtained an replace with new options and several other under-the-hood enhancements to make the app extra dependable and handy.

For these unfamiliar, Auto Darkish Mode enables you to schedule theme switching and allow or disable Home windows Darkish Mode at sundown, a particular time, or utilizing a devoted shortcut. Auto Darkish Mode has a number of customization choices that assist you to set a devoted theme or wallpaper for darkish and lightweight modes, delay theme switching, set further circumstances, and extra.

With model 10.3.0.90, the app will get even higher with new scheduling choices, a extra fashionable UI, new context menu entries, and extra. This is what’s new:

new options

• Use Home windows Evening Gentle because the supply on your gentle and darkish swap instances. You possibly can in fact nonetheless configure offsets in ADM.
• Cease automated theme switching as soon as (dynamically postpone till subsequent dawn/sundown time).
• Pause automated theme switching for a short while.
• Suspending theme switches managed by way of the UI on the Time web page:
  • Pause and resume theme switching by way of the UI on the Time web page.
  • See which modules are holding the theme swap and for the way lengthy (if they’ve an expiration time).
• Present a notification and interactively delay or postpone this motion:
  • Extra themes should be up to date earlier than automated theme swap is utilized.
  • When Auto Darkish Mode is on.
• New Hotkey:
  • Activate/off automated theme switching.
  • Pause theme switching till the following dawn/sundown.
  • Toggle themes between gentle and darkish utilizing a single hotkey. When you swap to a theme that does not match the timing, we’ll routinely cease the theme switching and notify you.
• New context menu choices within the notification space/tray that present related performance to hotkeys.
• Toggle colorization for title bar and window border for Home windows 10 (works on Home windows 11 for some home windows, however not all).
• Ignore sure choices like background, cursor, and sounds when utilizing Home windows Theme Mode.

Enchancment,

• Makes use of a further, extra fashionable theme switching methodology that helps extra choices and makes ADM extra dependable (many due to @namazso for the superior contribution)!
• Cheap help for in-lockscreen theme switching. Home windows 11 will swap on as quickly as you unlock your PC, Home windows 10 will swap themes through the lockscreen.
• Clicking on the tray icon when the app is minimized will now convey it up instantly.
• A number of stability enhancements for theme state synchronization, together with however not restricted to:
  • Extra dependable wallpaper restoration from current customized themes (for help of third occasion wallpaper instruments),
  • Improved recognition when an unsaved Home windows theme is used.
  • Enhance the flickering potential wallpaper by decreasing the variety of synchronization calls required.
  • Extra strong detection of at the moment energetic Home windows themes.
• Single monitor and multi monitor wallpapers in addition to strong colours are actually regained when the wallpaper picker is enabled and when auto darkish mode is began for a smoother wallpaper switching expertise with our personal picker.
• The context menu within the tray now helps darkish mode.
• The Wallpaper web page now requests a theme refresh when the setting is turned on, leading to a barely higher consumer expertise.
• We redesigned the personalization web page to look a little bit extra fashionable.
• Info textual content added on urgent the copy button on the About web page.
• Notification space icons and hover textual content present whether or not auto theme switching has been paused or disabled.

repair

• Mounted a problem the place ADM stopped working with builds older than 19044 (#508).
• Mounted a problem on Home windows 10 that brought about a number of customers to expertise missed theme switches on one consumer account after they had been at the moment logged into one other. You possibly can flip help for this on or off within the Settings menu (#544).
• Mounted a problem the place Home windows default themes weren’t syncing appropriately.
• Mounted a problem the place customized theme synchronization was system language dependent and would solely work appropriately in English.
• Mounted a problem the place the energetic slideshow within the supply theme would trigger the wallpaper picker to fail to set the wallpaper.
• Mounted a problem the place strong shade backgrounds did not sync (#547).
• Mounted a number of points the place incorrect theme paths had been being retrieved, inflicting both an excessive amount of or too little theme synchronization and purposes.
• Mounted a problem on Home windows 10 the place the “Restore theme when modified externally” setting would trigger extreme theme updates by limiting updates.
• Mounted a problem the place the updater would parse whitelisted information with case-sensitivity.
• Mounted a problem the place the theme picker was forcing the theme to all the time refresh when the web page was loaded, even when the setting was disabled.

Auto Darkish Mode is offered without cost from the Microsoft Retailer and GitHub, the place you may as well contribute to its additional growth. It is a user-favorite app (it not too long ago received an Open Platform Award), and we’re glad to see it proceed to develop with new options, higher mechanisms, and different enhancements.