#Make imessage mac black theme windows#

Log out via the Apple menu, and then log back in again.ĭon’t forget that you’ll need to also turn on dark menu and dock within System Preference’s “General” section.Paste in the following, which might appear as more than one line on your screen but is actually a single-line-just triple-click the text to highlight it, and then Cmd+C to copy it before pasting it into the Terminal window:ĭefaults write -g NSWindowDarkChocolate -bool TRUE.You’ll find Terminal in the Utilities folder of the Applications list in Finder. Warning! Follow the steps below at your own risk! I will not be held responsible for damage arising from this. Some apps like Calendar or third-party apps such as Microsoft Word just entirely ignore the setting and revert to their usual white mode. Some interface items look wrong or are unreadable. Within High Sierra DarkChocolate is a prototype implementation and, to be blunt, it doesn’t work very well.

DarkChocolate is likely to be Apple’s internal codename for the dark mode feature.

#Make imessage mac black theme windows#

No, this is a system-wide config affecting most windows and it uses a hidden system key called “NSWindowDarkChocolate”. I’m NOT talking about the simple “Use Dark Menu and Dock” option within the “General” section of System Preferences (although if you follow the steps below then you’ll want to activate this too). It looks great-but did you know a preview of this is built into macOS High Sierra? This switches the interface from being broadly white and grey, as per computing over the last 30 years, to being various shares of black and grey. The forthcoming macOS Mojave comes with a “dark mode” interface option. Get dark mode on macOS High Sierra with this hack