YouTube's website in dark mode

YouTube's nighttime mode provides an easier-on-the-eyes viewing feel. It's particularly nice when watching videos in the dark or at night. YouTube'southward 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 plant in the top-correct corner of the page. And then select the "Advent: Device Theme" choice in the menu.

Choose "Appearance: Device Theme" from the context menu

If y'all aren't signed in, click the menu button (it looks like 3 vertical dots) instead. You lot'll find the aforementioned "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. Cull "Dark Theme" from the post-obit folio. This setting applies to your electric current web browser only, so you'll take to enable the dark theme on each computer you use—it doesn't sync with your Google account.

Select "Dark Theme"

To undo this change, click your contour pic or 3-push button menu push button over again, select "Appearance: Dark," and choose "Utilise Device Theme" (if your estimator is using a organization-wide light mode) or "Lite Theme."

For a complete dark mode on your desktop, enable dark mode in your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge browser. You lot tin can besides enable a night theme in Gmail, too. You tin can also actuate Windows ten's built-in dark mode.

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Enable Dark Mode On iPhone and iPad

The YouTube app for iPhone and iPad has its ain nighttime mode choice, too. To enable information technology, open the app and tap your profile icon in the peak-right corner of your screen.

Tap your profile picture in the top-right corner

Adjacent, tap "Settings" constitute at the bottom of the card that appears.

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

Choose the "General" option.

Choose the "General" button

Finally, toggle on "Nighttime Theme."

Toggle on the "Dark Mode" option

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

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Enable Night Way On Android

Equally with the other platforms, the YouTube for Android app follows your device'southward system-wide theme settings. Just if you lot don't want everything on your Android telephone or tablet to be in night mode, yous can manually modify it in the YouTube app.

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

Tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner

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

Select the "Settings" option

From there, choose "General."

Choose the "General" option

Select "Advent" from the list of options. This carte is where you lot can choose betwixt a dark and light theme.

Tap the "Appearance" option

The "Use Device Theme" selection 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 bill of fare anytime you want to revert dorsum to the Light theme!