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.

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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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