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by gymbeaux 410 days ago
A black background on an AMOLED display (something Samsung Galaxy phones tended to have) would use less energy because “pitch black” on AMOLED is literally turning the underlying pixels off- with LED displays, that’s not possible.
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It’s proportional to brightness on OLED. You save a lot with a dark background/dark mode already, it doesn’t need to be specifically black.