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Theme

App theme

You can choose the dark, light, or system background for app elements (tabs, the SmartBox, and others).

  1. On the home screen, tap  → App settings.

  2. Under General, tap Theme.

  3. Select one of the options:

    • Always dark
    • Always light
    • System settings

Websites theme

Sites are normally displayed on a light or dark background regardless of which app theme is selected. But if you need to, you can force-enable the dark theme for all sites. Then if you don't like how a site looks, you can enable the light theme for this site specifically.

For all sites

Note

If the light theme is selected for the app, you can't enable the dark theme for websites.

To enable dark theme for websites:

  1. On the home screen, tap  → App settings.
  2. Under General, tap Theme.
  3. Select Always dark.
  4. Enable the Dark theme for websites option.
For a specific website

Note

If the dark theme is enabled for all websites, you can switch a specific site to the light theme.

To enable the light theme for a specific website:

  1. While on the site, tap to the right of the SmartBox.
  2. Tap Site light theme.

To disable the light theme for the website, tap  → Site dark theme.

Note

Some Yandex services always use the light theme because they look better that way.

Problems with the theme

There's no dark theme

To make the feature available, update the app.

I can't change the theme in Yandex services

If you changed the appearance of Yandex services in the settings but nothing has changed, the problem may be in the Yandex app.

Set the same theme in the app as in Yandex services.

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