Bing Search and Bing Chat officially rolling out dark mode

A new "dark" setting will appear in your search settings under the "appearance" section.

Chat with SearchBot

Microsoft has begun to officially roll out dark mode for Bing Search and Bing Chat. We reported this was coming, along with support for Bing Chat in Chrome and Safari browsers. Microsoft’s Jordi Ribas posted on Twitter “We are starting to roll out desktop dark mode for Bing over the next few days.”

What dark mode looks like in Bing Search. Here is a screenshot of what dark mode looks like in Bing Search:

Bing Search Dark Mode

What dark mode looks like in Bing Chat. Here is a screenshot of what dark mode looks like in Bing Chat:

Bing Chat Dark Mode

How to enable dark mode in Bing. To enable dark mode in Bing Search or Bing Chat, click on the menu bar at the top right of the page and under the “appearance” section check off “dark.” You can also default to your system settings for dark or light mode:

Bing Dark Mode Setting

Why we care. Jordi Ribas from Microsoft said, “We heard the requests for dark mode and are excited for everyone to experience this feature in Bing Search and Chat.”

So this is a much-requested feature and we know Google Search supports dark mode, as does Google Bard.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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