
The command is reversible, just swap out the “ -bool yes” part with “ -bool no“, and you’re back to using Dark Mode. Now, fire up your application again and it should run in “regular” light mode. This command returns: -Macįor the Spark Mail app that I’m using in this example.Ĭopy the identifier, and issue this command to turn off Dark Mode: defaults write -Mac NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool yes (In this example I use the Spark Mail app from Readdle as it didn’t have an option for choosing modes at the time of this writing) : osascript -e 'id of app "Spark"' To force an application to use the light interface mode instead of Mojave Dark Mode, quit the app in question and in a Terminal, issue the following command to get the Bundle Identifier for the app. MacOS X Mojave’s “Dark Mode” is what I prefer for most apps that I use, but for some applications I wish there was an option somewhere to disable Dark Mode for specific apps.Īt the time of this writing, Apple doesn’t provide a way to choose what apps that should use the dark or light mode, it’s up to the developer to provide an option in the application’s settings, so for apps that do not have this option it’s time for a little hack.
