If you've ever caught yourself squinting at your screen late at night, you already know why Dark Mode feels like a lifesaver. It swaps out the blinding whites for cooler shades of gray and black, ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 was released for Pixel phones on August 20. The latest beta build previews some of the features coming ...

Google is testing a powerful new feature called Expanded Dark Mode in its latest Android Canary build. It forces Dark Mode on apps that don’t natively support it, finally giving your eyes a break in ...

Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 finally lets you force dark mode in all your apps with the new ‘Extended’ dark mode toggle. When enabled, this automatically inverts the light areas in the app interface. Google ...

I've spent large portions of my life looking for ways to extend the battery life on my Android phones. Admittedly, that sounds rather dramatic, but growing up with only budget models meant I was ...

A bug in the Android 16 QPR1 beta 1 caused custom dark mode scheduling to stop working if you manually activated the mode via Quick Settings. The latest version of the beta has now fixed this issue.