Dark Mode Not Working in Chrome: How to Fix

In this guide, we will show you a nifty workaround that should help you fix the issue of Dark Mode not working in Google Chrome version 141.0.7390.55. There exists an experimental flag by the name ‘Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents’. In this, if you select “Enable with selective inversion on non-image elements”, then it will force the website into dark mode by inverting the colors of all elements except images. In theory, it doesn’t apply to image elements; unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case now.

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Everything on the website is currently messed up, whether it is the icons, images, tabs, or even the YouTube thumbnails. There are some internal talks going on in the Chromium department about this issue. According to them, “This issue appears to be blocking an upcoming release and is therefore an Urgent Release Blocking Issue as per http://go/chrome-slo#release-blocking-issues . Bumping the priority to P0 to better reflect the urgency.”

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However, this was then met with the following reply, “The issue looks to be due to color space change but should not be release blocking issue . The default color space now would be LAB, which will be changed to Y’CbCr in next few weeks. To confirm whether it is color space issue, can reeshas@ pls share more images on windows platform (with issue and without issue)? Very soon “enable with selective inversion on non-image elements” option would be removed.”

So this begs the all-important question- how to rectify this problem? Let’s find out.

Fix Dark Mode Not Working in Chrome

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As of now, you have the following two fixes in your hands:

  • Rollback/Downgrade to Chrome version 140, which is free from this problem.
  • Switch to Chrome Canary or Beta builds as they are not affected by this issue.

That’s it. These are the only two methods that should help you fix the issue of Dark Mode not working in Google Chrome. As far as the official stance on this matter is concerned, the developers are aware of this issue, but they haven’t given out any ETA for the rollout of a fix. As and when that happens, we will update this guide accordingly. In the meantime, the aforementioned workarounds are your best bet.

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