YouTube's website in dark mode

YouTube's night fashion provides an easier-on-the-eyes viewing experience. It's specially nice when watching videos in the nighttime or at night. YouTube's dark theme is available on the YouTube website and in YouTube'south mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Enable Dark Way On the Web

On YouTube's desktop website, click your profile icon found in the top-right corner of the page. So select the "Advent: Device Theme" option in the menu.

Choose "Appearance: Device Theme" from the context menu

If y'all aren't signed in, click the card button (it looks like three vertical dots) instead. You'll observe the same "Appearance: Device Theme" option here.

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

By default, YouTube will follow your computer's arrangement-broad theme settings. Choose "Nighttime Theme" from the following folio. This setting applies to your current spider web browser only, so you lot'll take to enable the dark theme on each computer you use—it doesn't sync with your Google account.

Select "Dark Theme"

To disengage this change, click your profile picture or three-push button menu button once more, select "Advent: Nighttime," and choose "Utilize Device Theme" (if your computer is using a arrangement-wide light way) or "Lite Theme."

For a complete nighttime fashion on your desktop, enable dark way in your Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Microsoft Edge browser. Yous can also enable a dark theme in Gmail, besides. You can also activate Windows 10's congenital-in dark fashion.

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Enable Dark Style On iPhone and iPad

The YouTube app for iPhone and iPad has its ain dark fashion selection, also. To enable it, open the app and tap your contour icon in the acme-right 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 "General" option.

Choose the "General" button

Finally, toggle on "Nighttime Theme."

Toggle on the "Dark Mode" option

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

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Enable Dark Mode On Android

As with the other platforms, the YouTube for Android app follows your device'due south system-wide theme settings. But if y'all don't want everything on your Android phone or tablet to exist in dark mode, you lot can manually alter it in the YouTube app.

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Offset past opening the app on your Android device and tapping on your profile moving picture in the meridian-right corner of the screen.

Tap on your profile picture in the top-right corner

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

Select the "Settings" option

From in that location, cull "General."

Choose the "General" option

Select "Appearance" from the listing of options. This bill of fare is where you can choose between a night and light theme.

Tap the "Appearance" option

The "Use Device Theme" pick will be highlighted past default. Select "Dark Theme" to instantly transform the YouTube app'southward interface.

Choose the "Dark Theme" option

Return to the Appearance menu someday yous want to revert back to the Calorie-free theme!