Easy Automatic headlight modification

My 2016 f-150 has the led drl and auto headlights. However, the auto lights don’t come on early enough in my opinion or when it is raining or snowing and the drl doesn’t have the taillights on. My fix for that was to take a piece of black electrical tape and put on the automatic sensor on the dash. I then leave the light switch on auto. Whenever the ignition is on the lights are on and I don’t have to worry about leaving them on and running down the battery. If I don’t want the lights on for any reason, I can turn the switch to just the running lights or to off.