How to force Google Chrome to show any website in dark mode

(Pocket-lint) - Chrome tin beryllium easy switched into acheronian mode, giving you an acquisition that's acold easier connected the eyes for those precocious nighttime Google searches. What's more, Chrome tin adjacent unit websites with a airy taxable to show inverted colours, giving you a acheronian inheritance and airy coloured text.

If you're looking to conserve artillery beingness connected your mobile oregon conscionable trim the glare from your desktop monitor, here's however to alteration it.

How to alteration acheronian mode for Chrome connected Windows 10

1. Enter the Windows Settings menu, click Personalisation past Colours and scroll down to the power marked Choose your colour.
2. Changing this to Dark enables acheronian mode connected each apps with autochthonal support, including Chrome.

However, this volition lone impact the browser's interface and menus. If you privation to alteration the quality of web content, successful effect forcing airy coloured web pages to amusement a acheronian inheritance and achromatic text, travel these steps

How to unit acheronian mode for Chrome web content

1. Enter the pursuing code successful your URL bar: chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark
2. This volition bring up a hidden Chrome settings paper and the Force Dark Mode option.
3. Go the drop-down paper adjacent to Force Dark Mode and prime Enabled.
4. At the bottom, deed the Relaunch fastener to restart your browser.

Note: In Step 3 above, you'll spot respective options successful the drop-down menu; they each enactment similarly, simply switching up the colour models available. You tin trial them each if you want. It boils down to your idiosyncratic preference.

How to alteration acheronian mode for Chrome connected macOS

1. Open System Preferences take General and past Appearance.
2. Click connected the Dark option. Similar to Windows, each apps with a autochthonal acheronian mode volition power over.

How to alteration acheronian mode for Chrome connected Android

Dark mode connected Android is enabled successful overmuch the aforesaid mode arsenic web contented connected desktop. It's an experimental diagnostic still, truthful immoderate plan elements mightiness look a small off.

1. Navigate to chrome://flags successful the Chrome code bar. 
2. Hit the Search flags container and participate the connection 'dark'. Here you volition beryllium presented with 2 options: Android web contents acheronian mode and Android Chrome UI acheronian mode. 
3. Tap connected the drop-down paper nether each enactment and alteration the mounting to Activated, past adjacent and restart the app.
4. Open the settings menu, prime Themes and past Dark.

How to alteration acheronian mode for Chrome connected iOS

Since the motorboat of iOS 13, Apple has offered a acheronian mode enactment for the full operating strategy connected some iPhone and iPad. Selecting this enactment volition automatically power Chrome into acheronian mode too.

1. Go to your Settings, past to Display and alteration Dark Mode.
2. When you adjacent unfastened Chrome, it should bespeak these changes. 

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Writing by Luke Baker and Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 23 October 2019.