Macos – How to disable Google Chrome Dark Mode

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How do I disable the Google Chrome dark mode, but still keep using the dark mode appearance for the OS?

Up until today, Google Chrome was still the white material design. Now when I open it, I get the dark theme.

I can make it white again if I change the system appearance to white, but I like the dark theme for the OS.

I've searched chrome://flags and didn't see anything. I've also looked through the settings in Chrome and didn't find anything either.

Any ideas of why it suddenly changed, and how to change it back?

Chrome Version: 73.0.3683.86 (Official Build) (64-bit)

macOS Version: 10.14.3 (18D109)

Dark Mode

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Light Mode

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Best Answer

Use Command

defaults write com.google.Chrome NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

run this in Terminal will do.

Disable dark mode of other app

If you want to disable the dark mode of other application you'll need to get the Bundle Identifier first. 

osascript -e 'id of app "<App Name>"'

This will get the Bundle Identifier. Use the following command to disable dark mod of it.

defaults write <Bundle Identifier> NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

If you want to enable the dark mode of it again

defaults delete <Bundle Identifier> NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance

will do.

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