Gmail began rolling out dark mode on iOS several months ago, shortly after the release of iOS 13. As the months have passed, the ability to enable dark mode in Google's mail client has been reaching more users and devices, but not all.
In my case, I have been using the built-in Gmail dark mode for many months depending on the system theme on my iPhone, however on the iPad I have never had the option to activate it. With the release of the latest Gmail update, this feature is now available to everyone.
After updating the application to version 6.0.200519, the version of the application that has been available for a few hours on the App Store, users can activate the dark mode by default, continue using the light mode or configure the application to automatically activate and deactivate the dark / light mode depending on the system.
In this way, if our iPhone or iPad is configured to turn on dark mode automatically, Gmail will show the dark interface while this mode is activated and will show the light interface when it is deactivated.
How to activate dark mode in Gmail
- The first thing is to make sure that the Gmail application has been updated to the latest version.
- Next, we open gmail and we go to the Settings of the application.
- Click on Theme and we select: Dark.
IMPORTANT: If the Themes menu is not displayed after updating the application, we must close the application and reopen it to clear the application cache in the device memory and load the new version.
If we want the theme to change depending on the configuration of our device, we must select System default in the Theme menu. Previously we have to have configured in Automatic the menu AppearanceWithin Screen and brightness.
