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How to turn on dark mode on Windows desktop app
Hi,
Can anyone explain how to enable the dark mode ON DESKTOP APP of Windows 11...it staus bright white...the Linux and Mac apps have dark mode why not Windows!? It's 2023!
Thanks for any clarifications.
2 Replies
- Nancy
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for posting here, anonymous.
Dark mode is currently available on the Dropbox mobile app and the mobile Paper app, as mentioned here.
It sounds like the dark mode you’re referring to is the one available by each OS instead. However, since there’s a relevant idea about this here, you can definitely vote for it.
If you can't enable dark mode on Windows 11 with these steps, what I can suggest as a workaround for now, is to decrease the brightness of your screen, so that it's easier to access the Dropbox app on your computer.
Hope that helps!
- Thanks for posting, however I as a consumer am trapped between Dropbox and Microsoft for the implementation of dark mode that is. Dropbox app for windows is legacy based app, where forcing contrast theme changes Dropbox's theme as well, but since MS is doing half baked work on dark mode implementation on all of their apps including legacy ones(as of Win 11 22H2 release), there just is no way to turn dark mode on like the rest of the modern apps like One drive and Google drive, hence I urged in this community to change Dropbox code or whatever to support modern UI style on Windows instead of a arcane tech(win32 I guess) of a bygone era...it just hurts the eyes of YOUR userbases, as Dropbox looks like sore thumb even though it's Windows fault..please port or whatever and give us users the quick solution we deserve.
