Enabling Dark Mode in Windows and Android

Dark mode has gotten more common in recent years for a good reason, let's take a look on how to enable it
Enabling Dark Mode in Windows and Android

What is dark mode?

As the name implies, it will change the device and most apps darker. By default, most devices and apps has historically been bright and often white colored. Dark mode will change to a dark color theme, but not necessary black. Often the dark theme is a combination of gray colors or even dark colors

Not all apps support dark mode, but more and more apps does. Most apps will follow the default color profile of your device, so if you change to dark mode the apps will normally follow suite. Most apps also allows you to set apps individual, so you can set some apps to always be bright and some to always be dark

Windows 10/11

  1. Open Settings, by searching for it in the start-menu

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  2. Go to Personalisation > Colours

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  3. Under Choose your mode, you can pick Dark

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    Tip
    Custom allows you to define if you want windows, apps or both to default to either Dark or Light mode

Android (Samsung)

Most newer Android phones support dark mode, but steps can vary depending on brand. We'll show examples from Samsung

  1. Go into Settings
  2. Find and select Display

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  3. Choose Dark

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  4. Under Dark mode settings you can turn on schedule for either Sunset to sunrise or Custom schedule. This will automatically swap between dark mode during selected timeframe, or you can leave it off to always stay in dark/light mode

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