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How to Enable Dark Mode on Your iPhone

The iPhone Dark Mode feature enhances user experience by darkening backgrounds and lightening text for better contrast, reducing eye strain, and improving battery life. Accessible through Settings or Control Center, it can be toggled manually or set to activate automatically. This feature is available on most iPhone models.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
May 13, 2025 – 3 minutes read time

Overview

The iPhone Dark Mode feature reverses the color scheme on your iPhone, darkening the background and lightening text to provide higher contrast. This change will affect the theme for built-in apps, including Files, Messages, Music, Notes, Safari, and Settings.

Additionally, it can help reduce eye strain caused by looking at bright screens, or just look better to some users. To enable Dark Mode on iPhones of most models, simply make a quick change in the Settings app.

Enabling Dark Mode on your iPhone is easy, as it can be turned on and off as needed, or you can set it to activate automatically in the evenings. Let’s explore this feature.

Why You will Like This Tip

  • Dark Mode on iPhone is a neat setting that can help reduce eye strain while you use your iPhone.
  • You can also enjoy longer battery life and improved focus while using Dark Mode for iPhone.
  • Your phone can automatically toggle between Light and Dark Mode, depending on the time of day!

System Requirements

This tip was performed on an iPhone 14 Pro running iOS 18.4.1 but will work on most models and older software versions.

Click here to learn how to update your iPhone to the latest iOS version.

Enable Dark Mode

First, open Settings. Refer to the image below:

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Selecting the Settings app

Next, tap Disply & Brightness. See the image below:

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Selecting the Display & Brightness option

Now, tap the circle under Dark. See the following image:

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Running on Dark Mode

Next, to make Dark Mode turn on automatically when the sun sets and off again when the sun rises, make sure that Automatic is toggled on. Refer to the image below:

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Enabling automatic Dark Mode

Now, Dark Mode is turned on for your iPhone, and you can enjoy some battery saving, improved focus, and reduced eye strain!

Use Control Center to Access Dark Mode

You can also access Dark Mode from your Control Center. Simply open your Control Center by swiping down from the upper right corner. Then, touch and hold the Brightness bar and select Dark Mode. See the image below:

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Accessing Dark Mode via Control Center

The fastest way to turn Dark Mode on or off is to just ask Siri. “Hey Siri, turn on Dark Mode. See the following image:

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Using Siri to access Dark Mode

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How to Enable Google Chrome Dark Mode

Google Chrome has had a built-in dark theme like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge since Chrome 74. You can even apply a dark theme to every web page you visit using third-party themes or an extension.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
January 26, 2023

Google Chrome has had a built-in dark theme like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge since Chrome 74. You can even apply a dark theme to every web page you visit using third-party themes or an extension. Let’s explore this dark mode feature.

This is for devices running Windows 11 or 10. Screenshots are from Windows 10

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Chrome offers a built-in dark mode on Windows 11 and Windows 10. It even makes all of Chrome’s context menus dark, too.

Dark Mode for Windows 11

First, open the Settings app and navigate to:

Personalization > Color

Next, click the drop-down menu to the right of Choose Your Mode and select Dark. Refer to the below image:

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Setting Dark Mode for Windows 11

Next, close out the Settings app and launch Google Chrome. Unless you have manually set Chrome’s theme, it will match your system.

Dark Mode for Windows 10

First, head to:

Settings > Personalization > Colors

and select Dark under Choose your default app mode. See the below image:

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Setting Dark Mode for Windows 10

Apply a Dark Theme

Chrome supports user-created themes, which you can download from the Chrome Web Store. To give Chrome a dark interface, all you have to do is install a dark theme. Google even provides a helpful collection of editor-selected dark themes. This will give your Chrome browser a dark mode on Windows 7, Linux, Chrome OS, and any operating system without a native dark theme.

Note! Google now offers some official Chrome browser themes, including a “Just Black” dark mode theme. You may want to give that a try.

We recommend Morpheon Dark, which is the most popular dark theme in the Store. Unlike some other dark themes, it provides a decent amount of contrast between your active tab, which is a bit lighter, and your inactive tabs, which are darker.

This theme turns darkens the Tab Bar, Title Bar, Toolbar, and New Tab page. That’s all you can theme in Chrome. You can not make Chrome’s Context Menus or Settings page dark, for example. See the following image:

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Apply Morpheon Dark Mode

If you ever want to switch back to Chrome’s default theme you can. Head to:

Menu > Settings

Look for the Themes option under Appearance and then click Reset to Default. Refer to the below image:

Reset to the default theme
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How to Set Facebook’s Dark Mode on iPhone

Facebook’s dark mode on iPhone turns your entire social media experience dark, giving profiles, pages, newsfeeds, and everything else, a sleek appearance.

RAYMOND OGLESBY @RaymondOglesby2
JMarch 3, 2022

Facebook’s dark mode on iPhone turns your entire social media experience dark, giving profiles, pages, newsfeeds, and everything else, a sleek appearance. Let’s explore how to set this feature.

This is for the iPhone

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First, launch the Facebook app on your phone.

Next, in the app’s bottom bar, tap the hamburger Menu icon (the three horizontal lines icon). Refer to the below image:

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Accessing the Menu

Now, on the Menu page, in the top-right corner, tap Settings & Privacy (the gear icon). See the below image:

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Accessing Menu Settings

Next, on the Settings & Privacy page, from the Preferences section, select Dark Mode. See the following image:

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Accessing Dark Mode option

Now, a Dark Mode page will open. Here, you have various ways to control the mode:

  • On: Enable this option to activate dark mode in the Facebook app.
  • Off: Turn off dark mode with this option.
  • System: This option uses your phone’s default mode, which means if you have enabled dark mode on your iPhone, the Facebook app will also use dark mode. The same applies to light mode.

Refer to the below image:

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Enabling Dark Mode

And instantly, the Facebook app will turn dark. See the below image where we have the dark mode set to System. See the below image:

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Your Facebook in Dark Mode

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How To Turn On Dark Mode for the Kindle

Dark Mode is a huge trend right now, with phones and laptops moving to offer dark mode over the past few years. That’s extended to apps and websites too; and the Kindle is no exception.

Dark Mode is a huge trend right now, with phones and laptops moving to offer dark mode over the past few years. That’s extended to apps and websites too; and the Kindle is no exception.

This is for the Kindle

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The Amazon Kindle has, in fact, offered Inverted Mode for many years, only moving to offer Dark Mode on some devices more recently, and changing the name to “Dark Mode” in the process so people will know what it is.

Kindles That Support Dark Mode

First of all, you need to make sure you have a supported Kindle. Currently the list includes:

  • Kindle Paperwhite 4 (2018)
  • Kindle Oasis 3 (2019)
  • Kindle Oasis 2 (2017)

Checking Your Software

Dark Mode is really one of the accessibility features, but there’s a quick setting to turn it on.

First, make sure your Kindle is running the latest software (5.13.4 or higher). To view your software release number, select

Settings > Settings > Device options > Device info

Turning on Dark Mode

Now, from a book, tap at the top of the display and hit the Settings icon. Refer to below image:

Kindle 1

Accessing Settings

If you are on the home screen, you will find it at the top of the page.

A selection of icons will appear including Dark Mode. Tap to turn it on or off. See below image:

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Turn on/off Dark Mode

It’s that simple. Remember since the Kindle uses a front lighting system, you can still change the level of illumination or the color temperature (if you have those options) although with less white space on the page the effect of this is dramatically reduced.

You will also be able to find the Dark Mode option in

Settings > \Accessibility > Invert black and white

To update the software on your Kindle, go to

Settings > Device options > Advanced options > Update your Kindle

If the Update your Kindle option is greyed out, you have the latest software.

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How to Automatically Change Dark Mode Wallpaper on iPhone or iPad

Changing the wallpaper or background on your iPhone and iPad is a great way to update the appearance of your device, especially with the Dark Mode Apple wallpaper options to choose from. You need to have your device updated to at least iOS 13 or iPadOS 13. It’s best to update to iOS 14 if you’re looking to stay up to date

Changing the wallpaper or background on your iPhone and iPad is a great way to update the appearance of your device, especially with the Dark Mode Apple wallpaper options to choose from. You need to have your device updated to at least iOS 13 or iPadOS 13. It’s best to update to iOS 14 or higher if you are looking to stay up to date.

By using special wallpapers provided by Apple, they will automatically operate in both light and dark modes.

Let’s get started finding and changing our device’s wallpaper to a Dark Mode option.

This is for the iPhone and iPad

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First, launch Settings (the gear icon). Refer to below image:

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Accessing Settings

Next, tap the Wallpaper option. See below image:

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Selecting Wallpaper option

Now, in its settings, tap the Choose a New Wallpaper option. See following image:

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Selecting the new Wallpaper option

On the Choose screen, tap the Stills category. Refer to below image:

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Selecting the Stills category

In the Stills category, select a wallpaper that includes the dark mode icon. This looks like several concentric circles with the center cut out of them. If you scroll down, you will notice stills without the icon; these will not work for our purposes. See below image:

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Choosing a Dark Mode Wallpaper

The wallpapers with the dark and light mode icon will change automatically between dark and light versions when dark or light mode is activated.

Once you have selected a still, tap the Set option. See following image:

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Selecting the Set option

Now, decide whether you want to see the wallpaper on your Lock screen, Home screen, or both; or Cancel your selection. Refer to below image:

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Choosing where to apply the new Wallpaper

Next, exit Settings and switch from light to dark mode (or vice versa) by opening Control Center, (swipe down from upper right-hand corner in iOS 14 or higher). Now, hold down the brightness slider, and tap the dark or light mode button to switch modes. After you switch, you will notice that the wallpaper you set changes automatically to match.

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