{"id":29699,"date":"2020-08-06T17:14:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T21:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29699"},"modified":"2020-08-06T17:14:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T21:14:16","slug":"disabling-wallpaper-tinting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/disabling-wallpaper-tinting\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling Wallpaper Tinting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/08\/05\/dark-mode-wallpaper-tint-macos-big-sur\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/08\/05\/dark-mode-wallpaper-tint-macos-big-sur\/\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/08\/04\/macos-big-sur-beta-4\/\">fourth beta of macOS Big Sur<\/a>, released yesterday, adds a new toggle in System Preferences that&rsquo;s designed to disable the wallpaper tinting feature that&rsquo;s meant to make windows blend in with the desktop wallpaper.<\/p><p>For those who have Dark Mode enabled, turning off wallpaper tinting can make windows on the Mac noticeably darker, especially when a lighter color background is in use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antons\/status\/1290929826409455616\">Anton Sotkov<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antons\/status\/1290929826409455616\">\n<p>Previously the only way to disable it was to use the graphite accent color.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Or by using &ldquo;Reduce transparency.&rdquo; However, &ldquo;Allow wallpaper tinting in windows&rdquo; does not apply to the menu bar, so I&rsquo;ll continue using the accessibility setting.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/23\/macos-11-0-big-sur-announced\/\">macOS 11.0 Big Sur Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/12\/transparency-in-macos-10-14\/\">Transparency in macOS 10.14<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: The fourth beta of macOS Big Sur, released yesterday, adds a new toggle in System Preferences that&rsquo;s designed to disable the wallpaper tinting feature that&rsquo;s meant to make windows blend in with the desktop wallpaper.For those who have Dark Mode enabled, turning off wallpaper tinting can make windows on the Mac noticeably darker, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-08-06T21:14:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"41ba3c27-cd93-4278-bb56-4ecd47c85575","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-08-06T21:14:20Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQbo8J82TQni7Vk7NR8hVdQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,1805,30,1891,1181,626],"class_list":["post-29699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-dark-mode","tag-mac","tag-macos-11-0","tag-system-preferences","tag-wallpaper"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29700,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29699\/revisions\/29700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}