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Megan Ellis \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
TL;DR<\/p>\n
If you tell people that you use light mode on your phone, some people will look at you like you\u2019re crazy. That\u2019s because many people prefer dark mode UIs<\/a> because they\u2019re generally seen as easier on the eyes. Most apps have a built-in dark theme by this point, but there are still plenty that don\u2019t. For accessibility reasons, Android will soon let you enable dark mode in apps that don\u2019t natively support it.<\/p>\n Earlier today, Google released the second Android Canary build<\/a>, and while exploring it, we discovered a new option under Settings > Display & touch > Dark theme<\/strong>. Previously, this page only had options to schedule the dark theme, but it now offers two different dark theme \u201cmodes.\u201d There\u2019s the \u201cStandard<\/strong>\u201d mode, which applies the dark theme across your device and supported apps, and a new \u201cExpanded<\/strong>\u201d mode which automatically applies dark theme to more apps.<\/p>\n Mishaal Rahman \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n Android\u2019s new \u201cExpanded\u201d dark mode is different from the existing color inversion option as it doesn\u2019t invert all colors on screen, which can mess with images. It\u2019s more like the \u201coverride force-dark\u201d toggle in Developer Options, but it seems to work in more apps.<\/p>\n Google says the \u201cExpanded\u201d dark mode is intended to improve accessibility, but you may experience appearance issues when using it as some apps won\u2019t play nicely with it. If that happens, then it\u2019s recommended you enable the \u201cStandard\u201d dark mode instead, as it won\u2019t force a dark theme on apps that don\u2019t support it.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve been waiting for Google to launch this feature since we first spotted evidence of it<\/a> over a year ago. It seems the company needed some time to figure out how to present the feature to users, as they were previously testing it under the name, \u201cmake more apps dark<\/a>.\u201d By pitching it as an accessibility feature, Google will ensure that users are aware of its limitations and that it isn\u2019t intended as a foolproof way to enable a dark theme in all apps.<\/p>\n Although this feature is now live in the second Android Canary build, we don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll roll out for users in the Beta or Stable channels. We\u2019re hoping this feature will roll out in the second quarterly release of Android 16<\/a>, ie. Android 16 QPR2, which is scheduled for release this December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Megan Ellis \/ Android Authority TL;DR For accessibility, Android will soon let you enable a dark theme in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[47093,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-89752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-android-canary","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114910566148661346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"July](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/July_2025_Android_Canary_expanded_dark_mode-scaled.png\"\/ "\\"July")
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BLE Scanner app in light mode![\"BLE](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/BLE-Scanner-app-in-forced-dark-theme-scale.jpg\"\/ "\\"BLE")
BLE Scanner app in expanded dark mode<\/p>\n