The Why (or rather, the why now?)įinally, we want to acknowledge that this is something that many have not only wanted but needed. In the near future, you’ll be able to set Slack to comply with whatever you have set up on your computer already, by clicking “sync with OS settings.” We’ll let you know when this is available (it’ll be soon we just didn’t want a single other thing to delay this launch). It’s available right now, and from this moment, you can toggle between light and dark mode at will, all day long, should you so wish.
These will persist in whatever workspace you set them to across mobile and desktop, so whenever you switch to the dark side, your sidebar won’t leap out and surprise you. There are also new themes that have been added specifically for dark mode. You’ll get a preview of how everything will look-including our default set of sidebar themes, which will remain familiar but shift in palette to work better with dark mode.
To get there, click on your name in the left sidebar > Preferences > Themes. Head to Themes within your Preferences to toggle between light and dark. You can enlighten yourself more on the details of that in our Help Center.
It is there, we promise.ĭark mode on mobile is available already (in your settings menu), but it’s worth pointing out that dark mode is device-specific: We don’t want to assume that just because you want dark mode on desktop, you’ll also want it on your phone … but you’re now free to set it on both. If it’s not showing up, try refreshing, once. You’ll need to be on version 4.0.3 for Mac, or 4.0.2 for Windows and Linux. Specifically, today sees the release of dark mode across all desktop apps, Mac, Windows and Linux. It would be odd for us to announce this otherwise. Dark mode is now available on the app across all platforms.