Android dark mode can be hit or miss, depending on the app that’s being used at the time, but Google is looking to remedy that with Android 16.
Despite supporting dark mode on Android since the Android 9 beta, there’s always been a nagging problem with the theme — not all apps or icons follow it. To use dark mode previously, app developers had to actually bake dark mode into their apps themselves, and not all developers have bought into the trend. With the new Android 16 design, though, Google will force apps to use an inverted color theme by introducing expanding options for dark mode when using a new mode that ties into the theme.
According to a developer blog post that Google shared yesterday following the official unveiling of its Pixel 10 lineup, the new expanded option is already available to test in Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1. While it’s still likely a few months away from hitting the stable release of Android 16 — and even further depending on which smartphone brand you sport — knowing that Google is addressing this annoyance is definitely movement in the right direction.
