How To Turn On Dark Mode In Windows 10

One of the new visual features users have been asking for is a night theme which is already available in some apps like Microsoft Edge and Post and Calendar.

Microsoft rolled out Windows x Build 14316 to Windows Insiders this week. Information technology comes with a ton of new features which are a preview of the upcoming free Anniversary Update that'south coming subsequently this summer for current Windows 10 users.

One of the new visual features users have been asking for is a nighttime theme which is already available in some apps similar Microsoft Edge and Mail and Agenda. Just this volition give that night theme throughout all of the OS.

Too, if you lot're running Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), there are new colour themes, including black, in Office 2016 which you can check out hither.

Windows 10 Dark Mode

To turn on the Dark theme, go to Settings > Personalization > Colors. And then curlicue down under "Choose your color" and select Dark.

After enabling information technology, yous tin can choose an accent colour that yous recall looks best. In the example beneath I switched my groundwork and went for a light-green accent colour.

Windows 11 and Dark Mode

Important: If you are running the latest version of the Os — Windows 11 — y'all can enable Night mode on Windows 11, besides.

Summing Upward

When you switch to Dark mode, apps similar the Store, Settings, Alarms & Clocks will change to dark fashion, too. With other universal apps, you can switch them into a nighttime fashion in the app's settings. For example, read our article on how to enable the dark theme for the Windows 10 Twitter app.

Note: Go along in listen that this is a expect at the preview version of the upcoming update, and some of this is subject to change by the time the last version is released.

It's too worth noting that if you're running Office 2016, you lot tin can make information technology match with its new Dark or Black color scheme.

To get more of an idea of what's coming this summer in the Windows 10 Ceremony update, check out our article about Windows 10 Preview Build 14316. Of class, if yous want to start testing out these new features on a spare arrangement of your own, you can join the Windows Insider program which is free.

Are you looking forward to the new dark theme for Windows 10? Get out a annotate beneath or claw up with other Windows fans in our new and improved Windows ten Forums.