YouTube's website in dark mode

YouTube's nighttime style provides an easier-on-the-eyes viewing experience. It's particularly nice when watching videos in the dark or at night. YouTube's dark theme is available on the YouTube website and in YouTube's mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Enable Dark Manner On the Web

On YouTube's desktop website, click your contour icon found in the superlative-right corner of the page. Then select the "Appearance: Device Theme" option in the card.

Choose "Appearance: Device Theme" from the context menu

If you aren't signed in, click the carte du jour button (information technology looks like three vertical dots) instead. You'll detect the same "Appearance: Device Theme" option here.

Choose "Appearance: Dark Theme" from the drop-down menu

By default, YouTube will follow your computer's system-wide theme settings. Choose "Dark Theme" from the post-obit page. This setting applies to your electric current web browser only, and so you lot'll have to enable the night theme on each computer you apply—it doesn't sync with your Google account.

Select "Dark Theme"

To undo this modify, click your profile picture or three-push button carte du jour push button again, select "Appearance: Dark," and choose "Use Device Theme" (if your computer is using a system-broad low-cal mode) or "Light Theme."

For a complete dark mode on your desktop, enable night way in your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge browser. You can also enable a dark theme in Gmail, as well. You can also activate Windows 10's built-in night mode.

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Enable Dark Style On iPhone and iPad

The YouTube app for iPhone and iPad has its own dark manner option, too. To enable it, open the app and tap your profile icon in the top-right corner of your screen.

Tap your profile picture in the top-right corner

Next, tap "Settings" establish at the lesser of the menu that appears.

Select the "Settings" option at the bottom of the menu

Choose the "General" option.

Choose the "General" button

Finally, toggle on "Dark Theme."

Toggle on the "Dark Mode" option

To use YouTube's normal light theme again, return to this submenu and toggle off the "Dark Theme" slider.

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Enable Night Fashion On Android

As with the other platforms, the YouTube for Android app follows your device's organisation-broad theme settings. But if you don't want everything on your Android phone or tablet to be in dark mode, you lot tin can manually change information technology in the YouTube app.

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Offset by opening the app on your Android device and tapping on your profile picture in the top-right corner of the screen.

Tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner

Next, select the "Settings" option institute at the bottom of the menu.

Select the "Settings" option

From at that place, choose "General."

Choose the "General" option

Select "Appearance" from the list of options. This menu is where you can choose between a nighttime and light theme.

Tap the "Appearance" option

The "Employ Device Theme" option will be highlighted by default. Select "Dark Theme" to instantly transform the YouTube app's interface.

Choose the "Dark Theme" option

Render to the Appearance menu anytime you desire to revert dorsum to the Light theme!