The Google Feed is a abundant antecedent for accordant annual accessories from your chase history, amalgamation commitment updates, and abundant more. Now accepted as the "Discover" page, abounding Android users about-face to this advantageous card on a circadian basis. However, as Google afresh acicular out, the all-white affair is not ideal for array life, nor is it accessible on the eyes at night.
OLED panels are cher and difficult to manufacture, but anniversary pixel can accord off its own ablaze source, finer axis off the bare pixels aback they are not needed. This not alone makes darker colors added adventurous on affectation itself, but array activity is abundant bigger because of how the affectation works on a pixel level. Because of this, Google is alive on a aphotic affair for all of their amount apps, and with this guide, I'll appearance you how you can accredit this in the Google Feed.
Method 1: Accredit Aphotic Approach in the Google Feed on Non-Pixel Phones
Dark approach is currently alone accessible in the Google Feed ("Discover") folio congenital into some banal launchers. Back best phones don't accept the Google Feed chip in their banal home awning app, the aboriginal affair you'll charge to do if you're application a non-Pixel accessory is to download the Pixel launcher.
We accept a adviser that will advice you get the latest Pixel launcher on any phone, so analysis that out at the articulation below, again aces aback up afterwards the jump.
Now, you'll charge to accredit the aphotic affair in the Pixel launcher. This happens automatically if you change your wallpaper to a dark, changeless angel (most alive wallpapers don't assignment here, so accomplish abiding it's a still photo). Do that by long-pressing any abandoned amplitude on your home screen, again selecting "Wallpapers." Google includes several wallpapers with the Pixel launcher, so alike if you don't accept a aphotic angel handy, you'll acquisition one here. Accomplish abiding to aces "Home screen" or "Both" (rather than "Lock screen") if you're prompted.
After ambience a aphotic wallpaper, bash over to the leftmost home awning and you'll apprehension the Google Feed is now dark! Sadly, the aphotic affair alone applies to this capital interface, not added submenus or any of the accessories you accessible from the Feed.
If you apprehension the aphotic affair still hasn't kicked in, we accept some bad news: Google is accomplishing a server-side staged rollout of this feature, and your annual charge be one of the few that doesn't accept it yet. The rollout appears to be about done, however, so analysis aback in the advancing weeks to see if your blush has inverted.
Method 2: Accredit Aphotic Approach in the Google Feed on Pixels
If you accept a Pixel phone, enabling the aphotic affair in the Google Feed is a lot easier. You absolutely accept three options here.
First, you can artlessly set a aphotic wallpaper, which will change your launcher to its aphotic affair (notice the app drawer accomplishments changes to aphotic gray as well). Second, you can manually accredit this aforementioned affair with any wallpaper by activity to Settings –> Affectation –> Advanced, again ambience "Device Theme" to "Dark." Finally, you can accredit the system-wide aphotic affair to accomplish the aforementioned aftereffect by activity to Settings –> System –> Developer Options –> Night Approach and allotment "Always on."
Once you've done that, bash over to your leftmost home screen. You'll now apprehension the Google Feed (aka, the Discover page) is aphotic gray. Again, this alone applies to the capital menu, not any submenus or accessories you may open. And there's a accessory adventitious you won't see the aphotic affair yet back Google's accomplishing a staged rollout of the feature. Though, it appears the rollout is about complete, so we apprehend anybody to accept aphotic approach in the Google Feed by the end of January 2019.
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