YouTube's website in dark mode

YouTube's dark mode provides an easier-on-the-optics 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 Mode On the Web

On YouTube's desktop website, click your contour icon found in the top-correct corner of the page. Then select the "Appearance: Device Theme" choice in the bill of fare.

Choose "Appearance: Device Theme" from the context menu

If y'all aren't signed in, click the menu push button (it looks like three vertical dots) instead. You'll find the same "Appearance: Device Theme" selection hither.

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

By default, YouTube will follow your estimator'south system-broad theme settings. Choose "Dark Theme" from the following page. This setting applies to your current spider web browser only, and then you'll have to enable the dark theme on each figurer you use—it doesn't sync with your Google account.

Select "Dark Theme"

To disengage this change, click your contour flick or 3-push button menu button once more, select "Appearance: Dark," and cull "Use Device Theme" (if your reckoner is using a system-wide low-cal style) or "Low-cal Theme."

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

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Enable Night Mode On iPhone and iPad

The YouTube app for iPhone and iPad has its own nighttime mode option, likewise. To enable it, open the app and tap your profile icon in the superlative-correct corner of your screen.

Tap your profile picture in the top-right corner

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

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

Choose the "Full general" option.

Choose the "General" button

Finally, toggle on "Dark Theme."

Toggle on the "Dark Mode" option

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

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Enable Dark Mode On Android

Equally with the other platforms, the YouTube for Android app follows your device's system-wide theme settings. But if you don't want everything on your Android phone or tablet to be in night manner, yous tin manually change it in the YouTube app.

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Start by opening the app on your Android device and tapping on your contour picture in the tiptop-correct corner of the screen.

Tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner

Side by side, select the "Settings" option found at the bottom of the menu.

Select the "Settings" option

From there, cull "General."

Choose the "General" option

Select "Appearance" from the list of options. This menu is where you tin choose between a dark and calorie-free theme.

Tap the "Appearance" option

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

Choose the "Dark Theme" option

Return to the Appearance menu anytime yous want to revert back to the Light theme!