How to turn on dark mode on twitter

Twitter is one of the few to first use dark mode for their app and website, and now it has become a popular feature that every company wants to use. Twitter dark mode can make a user spend more time on the app — if the light is reduced it can help save our eyes.

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To get Twitter dark mode on Android or PC you don’t need an extension or what so ever, the feature is built-in already so that you can use dark mode any time on your device.

Using light mode in a dark room is something you don’t want to try every day your eyes may just successfully pull out. The feature could also save and prolong your battery life to some extent — as dark pixels draw noticeably less power than white ones.

The fresh look will also make content in the feed more appealing and easy to refer to with a more detailed look. The dark theme is available in two; Dim and Light Out, unlike other social platforms like Instagram, Facebook, and messaging app like WhatsApp that doesn’t come with different theme variant.

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Other apps like YouTube, Gmail, and Slack have a dark mode that helps you save battery and also ease your eyes. Even Google Play Store wants you to have it too. So if you want to try it out here’s how to turn it on.

Table of Contents

• How to turn on Twitter’s dark mode on iPhone and Android
• How to turn on Twitter dark mode for desktop

How to turn on Twitter’s dark mode on iPhone and Android

To enable the dark theme shouldn’t take you more than a minute. Twitter has two dark themes: Dim with the dark blue background, and Light Out with the black background. Either one is okay but Light Out is my preference.

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1. First, open the Twitter app for Android or iOS, and slide to the right side of your screen.

2. From the main menu, click on Settings and Privacy, then tap on Display and Sound.

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3. Under Display, tap on Dark Mode, turn it on and select the theme you want to use for Twitter.

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? Quick Tip: A menu slide will open, scroll down and you will find a bulb icon, tap on it to select your preferred dark theme on Twitter and turn it on.

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How to turn on Twitter dark mode for desktop

If you’ve turned on dark mode for your browser (Chrome), Twitter Web will likely use the same settings because it’s using the prefers-color-scheme* setting. But if you want to enable Twitter dark mode on PC you can still do that from the settings page.

1. Head over to www.twitter.com in your web browser. You can use any browser on your computer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari.

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2. Tap on the more options and select Display. Pick from the three options provided: Default, Dim, and Lights Out.

3. Select Dim to enable the dark blue background or Lights Out to turn on the black Twitter dark mode.

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You can customize your Twitter dark mode by selecting the colored icons above the dark mode options. This changes the color of the Twitter links and icons.

Browsing Twitter late at night is something we're all guilty of, but at the very least, dark mode can help make the experience a bit more comfortable. Dark mode is a staple of most smartphone apps these days, with it only becoming more popular in recent years.

Getting lost in Twitter is incredibly easy. Whether it be scrolling through the timeline, checking DMs, catching up on the news, or joining a conversation with Twitter Spaces, there are seemingly endless ways to spend fast too much time in the app. This is fine during the day, but when using Twitter at night, the stark white background can be piercing to look at. Thankfully, there's an easy fix for this.

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As Twitter explains, enabling dark mode on the Android and iOS apps takes just a couple of taps. Open the Twitter app, tap the three lines in the upper-left corner, and then tap the light bulb icon at the bottom-left of the screen. On iPhone, tap the toggle next to 'Dark mode.' On Android, tap the 'On' button. Just like that, dark mode will be up and running.

How To Schedule Dark Mode On The Twitter App

Users can manually turn dark mode on/off whenever they'd like, but this can get annoying after a while. For those that would rather automate the process, scheduling dark mode is just as easy. For iPhone users, open the Twitter app, tap the three lines in the upper-left corner, and then tap the light bulb icon again. This time, tap the toggle next to 'Use device settings.' This will automatically switch the Twitter app between light and dark mode depending on iOS's system settings, which can be found by opening the Settings app and tapping 'Display & Brightness.'

The process is pretty similar on Android, though the way scheduling works is different. Open the Twitter app, tap the three lines in the top-left corner, tap the light bulb icon, and then tap the 'Automatic at sunset' button. This will switch Twitter between light and dark mode depending on the local sunrise and sunset times where a person lives. Twitter for Android doesn't currently tie into systemwide dark mode settings the way the iPhone app does, but this gets the job done until that changes.

There's one final dark mode tip to keep in mind, and it's that Twitter allows users to change the appearance of its dark mode. After opening the app and tapping the light bulb icon, there are two options at the bottom of the screen — Dim and Lights out. The former gives Twitter a pleasing dark navy background, whereas the latter makes it completely black. Both look fantastic and make nighttime reading more comfortable, so feel free to choose either one.

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