

From System Preferences, open the General section and. Here’s what I really like about this: It’s dark, not light. If OS X Yosemite is a little too light and airy for your tastes, theres a new dark mode that you can activate to invert the entire interface. The change could theoretically be less distracting, which is a big benefit for graphic designers and others staring at their screens all day and trying to edit photos and create interfaces of their own. If you've been testing out the Mac OS X Yosemite preview, you already know that Mac OS X 10.10 has a ton of cool under-the-hood tweaks and optimizations.One of the most noticeable changes for me has to be the new flatter look and 'Dark Mode,' which changes most UI elements from silver to black, making it easier to use your Mac in low-light conditions.

For now, it seems to be only partially complete, but at least it’s enabled for testing. The feature likely won’t even be appreciated by most, but it’s something that could actually affect the user experience more than you might think, since it applies not only to the Mac’s persistent menu bar but also to the top bar that appears on each app window and the dock background. The update, which can be installed by registered developers who have the existing preview version on their machines through the Mac App Store, lets users enable Dark Mode, a highly coveted feature that impressed when it was unveiled at WWDC in June, but that Apple hadn’t actually turned on until now.ĩto5Mac has screens of the dark mode in action, and it’s beautiful to behold. Apple’s desktop operating system got a little more fashionable with the new Preview 3 update of OS X 10.10 Yosemite seeded to developers today.
