Finder window (Save As/Export, etc) show up in light color even though the system/app theme is dark

[msingleton]

I know its not a huge issue but as a designer its a little irritating. When running under the darkest theme in Illustrator and Indesign the open, save, export, and place dialogues are all in light themes even with the OS in Dark mode. All of the dialouges in Photoshop however show up dark.

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[Stathis.M]

Amazing, thank you!
Do you know if there is a way to apply this on Afters Effects also?

[Barb Binder]

This is shown towards the bottom of this thread—just scroll down.

In After Effects this command line in terminal fix this issue:

defaults write com.adobe.AfterEffects NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool false

~Barb

[Stathis.M]

Hi,

i didn't notice the post for After Effects and i tried almost the same command but with a space between the two words..
Anyway, all good now.
Thanks

[Stathis.M]

Update: Found it!

In the Composition panel press cmd+F12 for mac or Ctrl+F12 for windows to open the Console panel.

Push the three little lines button to the right of the text and select Debug Database View.
In the search area type "dark" and check the true box under "AE.SupportsDarkModeR"

You can take off your sunglasses now 😉
Cheers

[gunnarlinn]

I've just moved into a new computer, and still in 2024, InDesign is unable to follow OS theme. The Terminal command works just as well as last time, though. Thanks again.

[lpar]

Thank you for this solution! BTW it is April 2024 and the issue of light Finder windows in indesign 19.3 was still not fixed.

[kevgart]

I can't believe this hasn't been rolled out to InDesign yet - like what!

It honestly can't be that difficult to implement as its already done for PS.

It ALOT of things like this that show that Adobe are lazy - and too busy adding expanding rather than fixing the programs they have. 

[FoxCadet]

Seriously? It's been 3 years and no one fixed this yet?

[msingleton]

I find this issue very intruiging honestly, the simple fact that they think its a user setting issue or something like that. But Ironcialy sometime during all of this they implemented the option to change the Adobe Cloud app to dark mode so theres that. 

[rusbs.movee]

In After Effects this command line in terminal fix this issue:

defaults write com.adobe.AfterEffects NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool false

Try to find something like that for illustrator.

[Guest]

2023 and still no fix from Adobe.  Still no relevant response from Ashtuosh.

[Marius Bienius]

The question was asked in April 2020. We are at the end of September 2023 and the problem still persists. The solution given by Christopher-James works great. Meanwhile, Adobe still hasn't fixed the bug. Shame.

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. Can you share a few screenshots of the UI and  the version of InDesign & OS so that we can reproduce the issue on our end? We'll try our best to assist you with this.

Thanks
Rishabh

[exploirs]

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Thank you for sharing the details. Can you also share a screenshot of how the export/save window appears? Along with a screenshot of the complete UI. 

[FoxCadet]

That is the save as dialogue and the export dialogue UI. Normally on a Mac, the standard save file location navigator UI matches the system's dark mode settings. The only time this has contradicted in my lifetime has been on Adobe InDesign. It forces the file navigator in light mode. For context, this is how it should look — this was achieved using a terminal "hack" to fix the problem.