How to force Light / Dark Mode in iOS?

#ios #swift #howto #beginners

Starting in iOS 13, Apple made a systemwide Dark Mode option available. There are cases when we might want to force only the light mode user interface. This can be done by adding the following entry to the Info.plist of the app.

<key>UIUserInterfaceStyle</key>
<string>Light</string>

Similarly to force dark mode user interface:

<key>UIUserInterfaceStyle</key>
<string>Dark</string>

UIUserInterfaceStyle has the following possible values:
1) Automatic (default value if we do not add UIUserInterfaceStyle key explicitly)
2) Light (forces light mode user interface)
3) Dark (forces dark mode user interface)

I hope this short post is helpful.
Happy coding :)