Much to the relief of night owls everywhere, Slack has finally released a dark mode for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Here's how to banish the white background, and head over to the dark.
If you're one of the people who have been holding their breath for a dark mode in Slack, it's time for you to breathe a little easier. Slack's HQ team has announced that dark mode has finally made an appearance on the desktop versions of the application.
If you use Slack on your Mac, you can try out dark mode today.
- Open Slack on your Mac
- Click on your name in the sidebar
- Select preferences
- Select themes
- Select a dark from the theme option
Slack has noted that you must be updated to version 4.0, and that you may need to restart the app a few times before the effects take place. All the old slack sidebar themes remain as well, but have been updated to work better with the new dark mode.
Sep 12, 2019 Slack is introducing a new dark mode feature for its desktop apps. It comes months after the same feature was made available on iOS and Android. Now, Windows and Mac.
- Mar 08, 2019 Dark Mode is turning out to be one of the de facto features on many apps. Slack is one of the new contenders, it has begun testing a dark theme in its app. According to 9To5Mac, it was the most requested feature by Slack users. To follow up, the company released a beta version of the app with a Dark Mode option.
- Sblack is a little free Mac app that applies a Dark Theme to Slack for Mac to make it easier on your eyes. Just drag and drop and you're done! Tweet Share Embed. Featured 2 years ago.
- Dracula is a color scheme for code editors and terminal emulators such as Vim, Notepad, iTerm, VSCode, Terminal.app, ZSH, and much more.
- Dark theme for desktop app? The new logo and colors are good an all, but what about a dark theme? Last time I heard, it was coming 'soon' a year ago. Which adds a custom dark theme mode to Slack's HTML, for now. Works pretty well and is a fraction of the size of the typical desktop version (with of course the usual caveats!).
- Sep 12, 2019 Slack already offered Dark Mode on its mobile app. But, available now, users of Slack’s desktop apps on Windows, Mac and Linux, can toggle between the traditional white and purple background.
Dark mode is especially useful for those who work in low light or late at night. It is also beneficial to users with certain types of visual impairments.
In March of 2019, Slack released a dark mode for their iOS and Android apps, but tweeted 'Dark mode isn't available on our desktop app right now, but we're working on it. Stay tuned for a brighter, darker future.'
Six months later, Slack has finally given users the option to opt in to dark mode, should they want it. Responses from the community trend overwhelmingly positive.
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SO! Finally! Here we have it: For those who need it, who want it, who have asked for it or who could just use it occasionally — dark mode is now available on the desktop app as well as mobile, for everyone. Read more: https://t.co/2KXjYlDWkUpic.twitter.com/OKZ0NfqybK
— Slack *does* have dark mode now, yes indeed. (@SlackHQ) September 12, 2019Dark Theme Mac Os
Slack has also stated that in the near future users will be able to set Slack to comply with operating settings by clicking 'sync with OS settings,' but wished to roll out the dark mode update as soon as possible.
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