Here Is How You Can Enable Dark Mode On Google Chrome

Chitanis - Oct 03, 2019


Here Is How You Can Enable Dark Mode On Google Chrome

Google started rolling out dark mode for Chrome earlier this April. Here's how you can get the full experience of Dark Mode on Google Chrome

In April, Google introduced Dark Mode for Google Chrome. The name is quite self-explanatory as with new feature, a dark theme is available on Chrome.

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Google Chrome's dark mode.

Moreover, dark mode is visible on the bookmark bar, tabs and address bar. Besides, the background of the new page on Google Chrome also turns black. Google doesn’t enable this mode across the whole system so website pages’ background still has the white color. According to what Techdows discovered, if you want to fully experience this feature on Chrome web pages, you can follow this new workaround.

In order to turn on Dark Mode on Chrome, the first thing users have to do is to download Canary. Canary is where Chrome tests unreleased new features before launching the final version which is more stable.

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Chrome Canary.

After users download Canary, in the search bar, they need to type “chrome://flags”

On the flags page, look for “Force dark mode.” 

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How to turn on Dark Mode on Google Chrome.

From the several search results, choose “Force Dark Mode for Web Contents.”

Afterward, it is necessary to choose “Enabled with selective image inversion” from the drop-down menu.

The final step for users is relaunching Google Chrome and see how this new feature works on the web browser.

Now, Dark Mode will be visible on websites too. On the web pages, the background is in black and the text is in white. The feature of Forced Dark Mode is available on Chrome for not only Windows, but also Mac, Linux, Android, and Chrome OS as well. The company has been rolling out this feature regularly on its services as well as its apps.

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Dark Mode will be on several operating systems.

Recently, Google Files is also updated with this Dark Mode feature. In addition, the forthcoming Android Q OS of Google is also expected for a release in the future with this Dark Mode across the whole system.

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