How to activate dark mode in Microsoft Edge with these steps

Virtually all mobile and desktop devices integrate a dark mode, dark mode that takes care of replace white with black in all menu items, for use in poor lighting conditions to reduce eye impact when displaying items with light backgrounds.

But in addition, they also implement a function that yellows the content of the screen (called Night Light in Windows 10), to reduce the presence of blue lights in our eyes, blue lights that can affect the quality of sleep of users when they use the equipment shortly before sleeping.

While the Night light mode is present throughout the system, not only in the native applications and menu items, the dark mode, we will only find it in the compatible applications, that is, applications configured to display a black and / or white interface depending on how it is set up in the system.

The problem with the Night Light mode is that yellows the whole screen, a tone that is not visually very pleasant (although the intensity can be adjusted through the configuration options) so many are the users who prefer to use the dark mode instead of the Night light mode.

If you have trouble falling asleep after working with your computer, you should try both modes independently to see which one is best suited to the functioning of your body, since the blue lights that the screens give off they do not affect all users equally.

What is dark mode

The dark mode in all the operating systems in which it is available, replaces the traditional white of the menu items with the black color, while the color of the letters, changes from black to white / dark gray, so that you can read the texts clearly without having to strain your eyes.

If we talk about Windows 10, once we activate the dark mode, all the elements of the menu interface, they will replace white with black. In addition, native applications (for the most part) will also replace the background colors to avoid the visual shock that our eyes can suffer when we have the dark mode activated, we are using an adapted application and we go to another that is not.

How to activate dark mode in Microsoft Edge

Activating the dark mode in Microsoft Edge, in its version for Chromium, is as simple as following the steps detailed below:

• The first thing we must do is access the oMicrosoft Edge configuration options, menu available by clicking on the three horizontal dots located in the upper corner of the application.
• Next, we access the menu Choose a topic.
• Within this menu, we have two options: Light and dark. We will select the latter so that both the browser and the web pages we visit, and are compatible, replace the traditional white background with black.

How to activate dark mode in Windows 10

If you want to take advantage of all the advantages that dark mode offers us not only in Microsoft Edge but also in Windows 10, the ideal is to also activate it in the entire operating system. If you want turn on dark mode in Windows 10 You must perform the steps that I detail below.

• Within the configuration options that we can access from the start menu and clicking on the gear wheel, click on Customization.
• Within Customization, in the left column click on Colours.
• Now we go to the left column and click on the drop-down box where we can read: Choose the color and we select Dark.

At the moment, all the applications compatible with dark mode that we have installed on our computer they will change their interface to black.

Advantages of dark mode

Reduces eyestrain

Although this functionality has always been associated with the Night Light mode, different studies have shown that the dark mode also allows us reduce eyestrain that our eyes endure after spending many hours in front of a computer.

Helps to rest better

What may initially seem silly, in the long run can affect the health of users. If you use your equipment, either computer or mobile devices, before going to sleep, you will prevent the blue light emitted by the clear mode from affecting the sleep cycles, sleep cycles that we must perform in order to wake up rested and not exhausted as if we had been awake all night.

Drawback of dark mode

Not all websites are adapted to dark mode

Dark mode in a browser is fine as long as we visit web pages that are adapted, that is, that the web detect that we have dark mode activated and instead of showing the traditional white background, it shows us the black color.

In some applications it is not well adapted

Some applications that offer support for dark mode have not worked much on the design, and when we activate it, it is difficult to recognize some menu items, which forces us to pay much more attention to elements and functions to be able to find them visually.

Does not extend the battery life in laptops

Laptops do not incorporate OLED screens, a technology that only turns on the LEDs that show a color other than blackInstead, they make use of LCD technology. The main reason is to avoid burning certain parts of the screen that always show the same image.

The LCD panels light up fully to show any color, including black, so if we replace the background color of both the applications and the menus, we will not notice any reduction in the battery life of our equipment.

Worth?

Obviously yes. The first reason to activate this mode that any user can have is to reduce eyestrain. Those who spend many hours of the day in front of a computer are noticing as the day progresses discomfort in the eyes such as ailments, dryness ...

Although many are the web pages that have not yet bothered to implement a code that detects if we have activated the dark mode in the browser or directly in the system (if they do it to know our browsing data) little by little, each time they are plus the web pages that are adding it. In fact, some They offer us the option to activate it manually through a specific button that is usually displayed in the upper corners.

The dark mode, visually it is more visually comfortable for our eyes than the Night light mode, a difficult way to make compatible when we use our equipment to edit photos or videos and where color codes are essential to be able to carry out our work.