Google announces dark mode for Photos on the web, to the relief of eyes everywhere

Do you fancy yourself a dark mode fan? Proponents of the rendering mode will tell you all about how they experience less eye strain from its white-on-black lettering, or how it can save a ton of battery power if you’re using an OLED display. There’s probably a larger continent still that uses it just because it looks cool. Over the years, we’ve seen developers bring dark mode options to more and more apps and services, and right now we’re checking out the latest progress with it for Google Photos.

We’ve been able to use the Photos app on our phones set to dark mode for the better part of forever, but for those of us who also like to manage our image libraries from the comfort of a big computer screen, Photos hasn’t always been quite so accommodating to our dark mode tastes. Blessedly, that finally started changing earlier this year, and back at the end of January we leaned that Photos has begun advertising the availability of dark mode on the web.