Hey Guys,
i‘d really appreciate an OLED Dark Mode for your iOS/Android apps (pitch black instead of grey)
Thanks in Advance
Paul
Hi,
The bitwarden mobile app does have an OLED dark theme.
Go to Settings—> Options(scroll down)—>Theme and select Black
@vachan did you try it? It doesn’t switch day/night theme with the device, at least not in iOS. Thus I agree that a real OLED theme would be very much appreciated.
There is an OLED theme on android.
The theme changes from light to dark(not OLED black) when the system theme is changed
On iOS 14.4.2, my observations are that:
- Theme=Black (as expected from name) will ignore system settings and provide an OLED dark theme.
-
Theme=Default:
- uses Gray for Dark mode
- doesn’t seem to change colors when I manually change System setting from Dark → Light, unless I restart the app.
Based on original feature request of adding OLED dark mode, I think that should be answered by existing Black theme.
The follow-up seems to be about adding a system theme shifting between Light + Black, which I don’t think exists.
Not too sure if the behavior I see where app colors don’t update without restart is normal. More iOS-specific apps like Safari and Dark Sky do support this.
Thanks all, more in the Github PR here.
100% agree!
And I am missing very, very much the real dark mode!
All Android versions newer than 2024.6.0 do not offer „black” (best for AMOLED!).
We have only a design choice for
– Standard (System)
– Dark
– Bright
But “Dark” is more a „Grey”, not really beautiful and less energy efficient as black.
To the responsible Bitwerden developers:
Please, give us the real AMOLED-friendly and beautiful black mode back!
@Eagle-Owl Welcome to the forum! I moved your comment to a more relevant feature request thread. As you can see from the comment above yours, this was implemented in 2022, but apparently the functionality was lost when Bitwarden’s Android app was rewritten in native Kotlin code using the Material You design tools. You could try filing this as a bug report (“New Issue”) in the GitHub repo.
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I already tried and they closed the issue immediately saying it was “intended behavior”
That can happen, sometimes for good reason, sometimes for no good reason (and it also depends on who first reviews your issue). Once an issue is closed, I have found that is usually pointless to argue.
To minimize the risk of an issue getting closed as “intended behavior”, it helps if you take care to word the Issue title and the details in a top post to frame the issue as a bug (not just something you are unhappy about).
In your case, you could try to re-file a new issue (or wait for somebody else to file it) with a more persuasive title and description, but it may ultimately be futile, because there are signs that Bitwarden is deliberately reducing the theme options (for example, in the browser extension UI redesign, the “Nord” and “Solarized Dark” options were removed).
In the meantime, this feature request thread remains open, so hopefully it will gain some traction.