Watch YouTube in ambient mode

Ambient mode uses a lighting effect to make watching videos more immersive by casting gentle colors from the video into your screen’s background.

Watch YouTube in Dark theme to activate Ambient mode ft. Raymond Strazdas 🕶️ 🎨

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To use Ambient mode:

  1. Once you turn on Dark theme, ambient mode is automatically enabled.

To turn off ambient mode:

  1. In the watch page, click Settings .
  2. Click Ambient mode .
  3. Toggle to turn Ambient mode off for all videos.

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