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Google Maps Dark Theme is Here!

Kellen September 29, 2020 15

Thanks to a brief tease from Google last year, we thought Google Maps picking up a dark theme would have been news we wrote up and forgot about long ago. For reasons we'll likely never know, that dark theme never showed up, but we are seeing signs that it...

Google Home App’s Dark Mode Actually Showed Up

Kellen August 27, 2020 20

The Google Home app on Android has forever been the whitest f*cking app on my phone. It's filled with a couple of fun little colorful icons surrounded by swaths of empty white on white on white space. It's the worst app you could ever open in a dark room,...

Google Chat Gets Dark Theme!

Kellen July 29, 2020 19

Google Chat, one of the whitest apps in the history of the app game, got its dark theme today. The update with dark theme is already rolling out too, so be sure to check your Play Store for updates if you use it. Google announced the news through its G Suite...

Google App Goes Dark

Kellen May 19, 2020

The Google App apparently did not have a proper dark theme until today. Google fixed that on both Android and iOS in an update or server-side switch that has begun rolling out this week. The dark mode flips Google App results (Search) from light to dark, that'...

YouTube TV Gets a Dark Theme!

Kellen April 9, 2020

The YouTube TV app on Android has forever been one of the whitest of all Google apps. It's astoundingly white and without a dark mode, which is weird, because the app is one of Google's more supported apps that gets frequent updates. If I were a betting man, I...

Google Play Dark Theme Now Available to All

Kellen March 12, 2020

If for some reason you are hanging onto a phone without Android 10 and all the dark mode action our lives deserve, know that Google Play will at least give you darkness in times of need. Google announced this week that the Google Play dark them is now...

WhatsApp Gets Dedicated Dark Mode!

Tim March 3, 2020

Big time major update for WhatsApp users this week, with the latest update apparently bringing an official Dark Mode. Really, it's taken this long? I don't use WhatsApp or anyone that does so I can't confirm any of this, but if you do, that's dope. In an...

Poll: How Often Do You Use Dark Mode?

Tim December 16, 2019

Talk of Android 11 getting a Dark Mode scheduler got us thinking, how often do you use the dark mode setting on your Android phone? Personally, when the sun is going down and I'm relaxing on the couch at night is when I manually toggle dark mode on my Pixel 4...