How to enable dark mode for Google Chrome

Google Chrome has a built-in dark theme since Chrome 74 like Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge. You can even apply a dark theme to any webpage you visit using third-party themes or an extension. Here’s how.

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

How to enable Chrome dark mode on Windows 11

Google Chrome’s built-in dark theme respects your system theme even on Windows 11.

Open the Settings app by typing “color settings” in the Start menu and pressing Enter or clicking “Open”.

Alternatively, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Personalization > Color.

Click the drop-down menu to the right of “Choose your mode” and select “Dark”.

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

How to enable Chrome dark mode on Windows 10

Google Chrome got a built-in dark theme for Windows in Chrome 74. To enable Chrome’s dark theme, simply switch your operating system to dark mode.

On Windows 10, go to Settings > Personalization > Colors and select “Dark” under “Choose your default app mode”. On a Mac, enable system-wide dark mode.

Here’s how to enable Chrome’s new dark mode if you’d rather use Chrome’s dark mode and light mode in the rest of Windows 10. This article also provides instructions on how to customize the color of Chrome’s window title bars.

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How to enable Chrome’s dark mode on macOS

Dark mode for Google Chrome became available on macOS in Chrome 73. As with Windows, Chrome on macOS respects the current system design.

To change the system theme, first open System Preferences. (You can open it by clicking the Apple menu in the bar at the top of your screen and choosing “System Preferences.”)

In the System Preferences window, click the General icon, then click Dark to the right of Appearance.

You can also type “dark” in the search bar at the top right to find this option.

Bonus: apply a dark theme

Chrome supports user-made themes that you can download the Chrome web store. To give Chrome a dark interface, all you have to do is install a dark theme. Google even has 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 that doesn’t have a native dark theme available.

To update: Google is now offering some official Chrome browser themes, including a “Only black“Dark mode theme. You might want to try this.

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

This theme darkens the tab bar, title bar, toolbar, and New Tab page. That’s all you can style in Chrome. For example, you can’t darken Chrome’s context menus or settings page.

If you ever want to switch back to Chrome’s default theme, you can. Click Menu > Settings. Under Appearance, look for Themes, then click Reset to Default.

Bonus: Install a dark mode extension

Warning: By their very nature, browser extensions are a potential security risk. You should use them as little as possible.

A theme changes your browser’s interface, but most websites use white backgrounds. Sure, you can turn on dark mode in Gmail and a few other sites individually, but that only works for one site at a time.

To get dark mode for the whole web, install the Dark Reader Extension from the Chrome Web Store. A few other browser extensions work similarly, but we like Dark Reader the most out of all the dark mode extensions we’ve tried.

This extension automatically applies a dark style to every webpage you visit and you can click the Dark Reader button on your toolbar to customize it. You can also disable dark mode for a website from here. The extension even lets you set websites to never open in dark mode, which is useful when Dark Reader isn’t working well with a website.

Unfortunately, unless you enable your system’s dark theme, Chrome’s settings pages are always light. For security reasons, extensions cannot manipulate them. Chrome’s context menus are provided by the operating system, so you can’t obscure them with an extension either.

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