You can also customize Dark Mode slightly by selecting from one of eight accent colors used to highlight menus you select.ĭark Mode can be helpful when working within certain apps and workflows. (The new Dark Mode theme is applied not only to menus and the Dock, but also to most Apple apps in the near future, third-party apps will be able to use the theme as well.)Īpple is also making the Dark Mode API available to third-party developers, so your favorite apps will likely support Dark Mode sometime in the future.ĭark Mode is a user-applied theme you can turn Dark Mode on or off as you wish, using the Mac’s General preference pane. The apps most of us routinely use, including Mail, iTunes, Finder, and Photos, have all moved to the dark side. The new version of Dark Mode extends the dark theme to most of the system, and applications that Apple bundles with the OS. This system-wide theme is an extension of the current Dark scheme introduced with OS X Yosemite that can be enabled for menus and the Dock. One of the new features that’s getting a bit of press is Dark Mode. With the background out of the way, let’s move on to what’s new in macOS Mojave. As such, features we see today may not make it all the way through the beta, or they may undergo significant changes before a public release.
This is a first impression of macOS Mojave, which was just made available in a developer beta. You’ll find all the details in A Complete List of Mojave Compatible Macs. Mojave will support most Macs from the year 2012 on, however, there are exceptions that can allow older models to work, as well as prevent newer models from being able to install Mojave. I chose to test Mojave on a 2014 27-inch Retina 5K iMac with a 4 GHz i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM. That didn’t go as well, but it’s the first beta, and the VM people will need some time to track down what appears to be graphics display issues.
I also tried to install Mojave beta as a guest OS in my favorite virtual machine app. The upgrade install of macOS Mojave went without a hitch. I installed the developer beta of Mojave on an external SSD that housed a recent clone of my High Sierra startup drive. Apple announced that macOS Mojave not only included the expected security, performance, and privacy improvements, but also an OS loaded with new features. I was expecting a version of the macOS that would mostly be about security and performance, but while I expected a fastball, Apple threw us a curve.
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