How to enable ZDF dark mode in 3 easy steps for FREE?

Introduction

Are you looking to bring the ZDF Dark Mode? Then you are on the correct help page. ZDF is an abbreviation of “Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen”. ZDF is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. That is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all federal states of Germany. ZDF is financed by television license fees and advertising revenues. The company was founded in 1961 and the main headquarters is in Mainz, Germany.

Mobile App

The ZDF created a progressive web app (PWA), and it is available for your mobile device. That makes the following available offline video playback, transition animations, and the ZDF dark mode.

Activate ZDF Dark Mode on iOS?

You can get a Dark Mode on your iPhone and iPad device. The ZDF app uses your OS-wide color preferences. So with that way, the app will automatically change its appearance on devices, and depending on the time of day it will get the dark mode or light mode. Or if choose only “dark” then you see the dark mode for always.

Activate ZDF Dark Mode on Android?

The same iOS solution is also for Android devices, so it uses your system theme color to set your mobile app theme.

Does the ZDF website have Dark Mode?

No. There is no official ZDF Dark Mode that has a custom Dark Mode theme that is comfortable for your eyes. The news website only has a clean and bright white background with the text color in white. However, you can install the free and Open-Source Turn Off the Lights browser extension. And enable the Night Mode feature. That can convert the ZDF to Dark Mode and any other websites.

ZDF Dark Mode with the free and Open-Source Turn Off the Lights browser extension
ZDF Dark Mode with the free and Open-Source Turn Off the Lights browser extension

Activate Dark Mode on ZDF beyond the application and on all websites with the free browser extension

For regular desktop internet users, you can get also this ZDF Night Mode version on your favorite web browser. That is with the Night Mode option in the Turn Off the Lights Browser extension. Follow the steps below on how to enable this free solution in your web browser:

  1. Download the Turn Off the Lights browser extension
  2. Click right on the gray lamp button and select Options in the menu item
  3. The Turn Off the Lights Options page shows up and select the tab Night Mode
  4. Enable here the Night switch or the long-press feature to activate the night mode on the current web page

In addition, you can customize the website background, text, and hyperlink colors. So you can make it personal to your night theme style. And get the Dark Mode on ZDF you want to see in your web browser.

YouTube video tutorial on how to enable the Night Mode feature

On iOS, you can also install the Turn Off the Lights for Safari app, which brings the option to get dark mode on your smaller screen size. So you can activate it with a long press on the current web page. See in the Turn Off the Lights Options page -> Night Mode tab -> and here you see the option to activate it by the switch on long-press action.

Conclusion

Hope that will answer one of your questions about the ZDF Dark Mode:

  • Does the ZDF website have Dark Mode?
  • Activate dark mode on ZDF Android?
  • Activate dark mode on ZDF on iPhone?
  • How to turn dark mode on ZDF?
  • How to turn on dark mode on ZDF?
  • How to change ZDF to dark mode?

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Stefan Van Damme