I firmly believed in using dark mode on my phone. Not because of its supposed benefits of saving battery (although these are nothing to sneeze at), but because I have the unfortunate habit of reading in low-light (or almost no light) conditions, and dark mode is much gentler for me. eyes.
While Android has a system-wide dark mode, you can set your Google apps to display in dark or light mode individually. anytime.
Here’s how to set the mode for Docs, Sheets or Slides on an Android phone (this was tested on a Pixel 3 running Android 12):
- Open your app and tap the “hamburger” lines in the upper left corner.
- Choose settings.”
- Near the top of the page you will see the link for the theme. Tap “Choose theme” and choose “Dark”, “Light” or “System default”.
If you’re using dark mode but need to see a single document in open mode instead (for example, so you can better see how it will print or how it will appear to another reader), you can do this from within the document:
- Select the three dots in the upper right corner.
- Tap “View in light theme”. If you want to revert to the dark theme, just follow the same guidelines.
Note that you can only change the theme in a document if the app uses the dark theme or if the app uses the system default, and he is dark theme. You cannot change the theme to dark in a document if the app itself uses the light theme or uses the system default and it is the light theme.
Update September 30, 2021, 4:30 PM ET: This article was originally published on July 22, 2020. Two screenshots have been changed to reflect a change in the Google Sheets interface and some details in the text have been updated.
