Safari Extensions for iOS and iPadOS 15: A Roundup of Our Favorites - MacStories
Too many websites don’t offer a dark mode. A good example is The New York Times and Vulture, which is pictured above. Far too often, when I’m reading late at night with the lights off, I tap on a Times link and get blinded by its bright white background. With Noir, that doesn’t happen because the extension can apply a dark mode to sites that don’t have their own.
I love Noir’s tasteful handling of dark mode. The color scheme has worked exceptionally well on all the sites I’ve tried.
The app is also highly customizable. You can set Noir to follow your system settings or to be on or off full-time. You can even use Noir’s dark mode instead of a site’s existing dark mode if you like it better. Those are all global settings, but you can apply Noir on a website-by-website basis too. Tap the Noir’s icon in the address bar, and you can switch between the app’s global setting, Auto, which follows your system settings, On, or Off. Even better, there’s a keyboard shortcut making it easy to cycle between Noir’s options for every website you visit with a connected keyboard. As a fan of dark mode, this is already one of my most-used extensions, especially on my iPad Pro.
The MacStories Selects Award Winners
- Best New App: Noir