Dark Mode, why after Years of requests this simple change still ignored?

[carverofchoice]

The answer is addressed in the Dark Theme Wishlist thread.

The short version is that the foundation of the app over 5 years ago wasn’t built with things like customizable layouts in mind. In order to accommodate Dark Mode and landscape mode they have to rebuild an entirely new app from scratch due to the design debt and limitation built into the foundation of the app.

That is not to say Wyze won’t do it. Wyze has placed this on the “Researching” and “In Progress” category of the wishlist. Here is a link that includes quotes of a couple of recent statements on the matter:

App Dark Theme/Mode

That appears to be a long ways off due to what it takes to fix it. Wyze has addressed this many times: One of those in an early Fix-It-Friday announcement: They’ve elaborated on this many times. This summer the VP of Product said this about it: Basically, it’s not as easy a fix as we all wish because the foundation of the app wasn’t setup to support layout structures and so they now need to rebuild the entire thing from scratch which is going to take some time, but is something they plan …

Someone just below that comment had a really good idea that Wyze could temporarily make a second app for now where they just change the default colors to dark mode for those want it. Then they don’t have to wait for the app rewrite to allow alternating layouts.
There is also a similar Wishlist asking Wyze to just make the app permanently darkmode for everyone until they get it fixed to allow people to choose:

Alternative to dark mode

As dark mode is apparently really hard to program for whatever reason, just make the app permanently dark. Go in and change the background color to black, and letters to white. That isn’t a dynamic change, literally a hard coded color change and wouldn’t be hard. Full time dark mode until you can actually implement blinding sun mode (current mode) as dynamic option based on system option.