How to enable Pinterest Dark Mode for FREE (in 3 easy steps)?

Introduction

Want Pinterest dark mode on your PC or Mac? The Pinterest app for iPhone and Android includes a built-in dark theme, but the pinterest.com website does not. With the free and open-source Turn Off the Lights browser extension, you get a real dark theme on the Pinterest website in one click. And from the Options page you can customize the dark theme to your own style: background color, text color, and hyperlink colors.

Does Pinterest have a dark mode?

Pinterest offers a dark theme in its mobile app, but the website has no official dark mode for desktop. To browse pinterest.com in dark mode on your computer, install the free Turn Off the Lights browser extension and enable the Night Mode feature.

Dark mode in the Pinterest app (iPhone and Android)

The Pinterest mobile app does include an official dark mode. On iPhone: open Pinterest, tap your profile picture, then the settings icon, “Account management”, “App theme”, and choose “Dark”. On Android, Pinterest follows your system theme: enable dark mode in your phone settings and the app switches automatically. For the pinterest.com website on your computer, the only option is a browser extension such as Turn Off the Lights, as explained below.

Pinterest in Light Mode

Before the theme on the Pinterest website.

Pinterest in Dark Mode

The after-the-dark theme is enabled on the Pinterest website.

Free and Open-Source

The Turn Off the Lights browser extension is free and Open-Source. And it is available on all modern web browsers. That includes Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Yandex, Brave, Vivaldi, Naver Whale, Yandex, and Cốc Cốc.

Solution: Activate Pinterest Dark Mode

With one powerful extension, you get the new Pinterest Dark Mode in your favorite web browser. Follow the steps below on how to activate this feature:

1. Install the free and Open-Source Turn Off the Lights Browser extension
   • For Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge
     1. Click right on the gray lamp button
     2. Select the menu item Options
   • For Safari
     1. Open the “Turn Off the Lights for Safari” app from the Launchpad or from the Application folder
     2. And click below in this window on the button Options
2. When the options page is open., click on the tab Night Mode
3. Enable the checkbox to make the Night switch visible on each web page or scroll further down to enable the checkbox to automatically convert the page to night theme each time you open a new page

Site Access (only to Pinterest Dark Mode)

Turn Off the Lights browser extension take your privacy very seriously, and you set up this browser extension to only allow the Pinterest website. Here are the steps on how to activate this feature

1. Open the chrome://extensions page and search for Turn Off the Lights

2. Click the Details button to open the detailed information about this Chrome extension
3. Search for the section Site Access, and click on the selection box to the menu item “On specific sites“

4. A new popup panel shows up, and type this URL in the text box “https://www.pinterest.com“

5. When you are done, click on the blue Add button to close this panel

So now the Pinterest Dark Mode website works only on this website URL, and not on all the other websites. Such as on YouTube, Vimeo, Amazon shopping, Internet banking, etc. websites.

YouTube video

Here is a useful tutorial video on how you can enable Pinterest Dark Mode in your web browser:

Conclusion

Hope that will answer one of your questions about the Pinterest Dark theme:

• How do I turn on dark mode on Pinterest?
• How do I make Pinterest dark on my computer?
• Does Pinterest have a dark mode on desktop?
• How to make Pinterest dark mode?

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Pinterest Dark Mode FAQ

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