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Chromebook Dark Mode is Almost Here

August 10, 2020 by Dinsan Francis | Updated: October 16, 2020 8 Comments

A recent code change request suggests that we will soon see dark mode on Chromebooks. We are yet to see an experimental flag to enable this feature though.

Update – 16-OCT-2020: Google has added the experimental flag to enable dark mode to the source code. We should see this flag and an early version of Chrome OS dark mode in the next Canary channel update.

“Dark/light mode of system UI: Enables the dark/light mode of system UI, which includes shelf, launcher, system tray, etc.”

Update – 25-SEP-2020: Google has added dark mode icons for the Keyboard Shortcuts app, Wallpaper app, and the Settings app.

  • Wallpaper Dark
  • Wallpaper Light
  • Settings Light
  • Settings Dark
  • Keyboard Shortcuts Light
  • Keyboard Shortcuts Dark
Dark Mode icons on Chromebook

Dark Mode – Code Change

The recent code change request that we spotted talks about adding the dark mode toggle to the ash system tray (the widget that pops up when you click time)

Chrome OS System Tray

“Add dark mode feature pod: This CL adds skeleton code for the dark mode feature pod.”

When you look within the code comments, you can see the strings added for dark mode:

Code change for Chromebook Dark Mode

It will take a few more weeks for us to see this feature in action. As usual, Chrome Story will be looking at upcoming updates to the Chrome OS Canary channel updates to being you the latest news on this front.

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Source: Gerrit.

Filed Under: Chromebook

About Dinsan Francis

Content Strategist and Digital Minimalist. Loves testing new Chromebook features and writing about them. Favorite Chrome OS Channel is Canary. | Twitter

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  1. Ciprian Laza says

    August 10, 2020 at 3:33 pm

    awesome, thank you

    Reply
    • Dinsan Francis says

      August 10, 2020 at 4:26 pm

      You are welcome 🙂

      Reply
  2. Guy DERIDET says

    August 10, 2020 at 4:21 pm

    Dark mode exists in Android version for a long time. Idem for Canary as a tag. How come that Google takes such long time to update the OS version ? Not only for dark mode.

    Reply
    • Dinsan Francis says

      August 10, 2020 at 4:27 pm

      Well, Chrome OS is not just one OS anymore. They have to consider Chrome OS, Android, Linux, and even Windows app. That’s my guess.

      Reply
  3. Michael Barrett says

    August 11, 2020 at 8:34 am

    Adjusting the “color temperature” is not the same as “dark mode”. Night Light is for comfortable reading. It adds an orange overlay to the bright white background.

    Reply
    • Dinsan Francis says

      August 11, 2020 at 8:47 am

      Yes, but whenever I tried night light on my Chromebook, dropped frames made it quite unusable. Are you using night light?

      Reply
  4. asukulu says

    September 30, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    how to dark mode on chromebook

    Reply
    • Dinsan Francis says

      October 1, 2020 at 9:03 pm

      Dark Mode for Chromebook is still a work-in-progress. Stay tuned for news on this.

      Reply

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