92 PCWorld OCTOBER 2019
HERE’S HOW ANDROID 10’S BEST NEW FEATURES
have their own internal switches. Here’s how
it breaks down:
Dark theme-ready
- Notification shade
- Google search widget
- Chrome
- Contacts
- Drive
- Files
- Google Pay
- Keep Notes
- Photos
- Play Games
- Settings
Separate dark mode available in app
settings
- Calculator
- Messages
Always dark
- Clock
- Play Movies
Not ready for dark theme
- Gmail
- Home
- Maps
- News
- Play Books
- Play Store
- Podcasts
- Wear OS
For the apps and elements that support
it, you can turn on Dark theme in two ways.
The quickest is inside the Notification shade.
Just swipe down from
the top of the screen,
swipe again to expand
the quick settings, and
tap the Dark theme
icon. Alternatively, you
can find a toggle inside
the Display settings.
Google is already
teasing a dark mode
for Maps and Assistant
on its Android 10 site,
so it shouldn’t be long
before the remaining
Dark theme in Android 10 can be toggled with a quick settings icon. apps receive support.