Posted on March 19, 2020
Minimize risks to the most vulnerable in your community. Take the social distancing pledge today.
We at CREDO Mobile have been reeling from the Coronavirus, like everyone else in the country and world. Our hearts go out to all those affected by this dangerous and deadly virus.
We are also dismayed that some of our leaders have not taken the very real threats of this pandemic seriously. They are spreading disinformation, causing confusion and ignoring the warnings by public health officials to take precautions to protect themselves, their families and their communities.
Scientists and leaders in the public health community stress the importance of “social distancing” to minimize the spread of this virus, especially to protect at-risk people, like seniors and those with pre-existing health conditions. But we also know that many people — like low wage and hourly workers, those whose employers are not providing paid time off, and people experiencing homelessness — do not have the freedom to limit their interactions or distance from others, which puts these people at extremely high risk, too. That’s why for those of us who have the privilege to practice social distancing, we must immediately limit our interactions to protect our most vulnerable communities.
We’re asking you today to sign our pledge and commit to minimizing your public interactions now. Then, we urge you to share this pledge with your family and friends to spread the word to help protect our nation’s most vulnerable.
We are social distancing — and, if you have the means to, we urge you to join us.
Take the Pledge
Posted on March 19, 2020
The survey results are in. Bernie vs Biden: Who did CREDO members choose?
Now, more than ever, bold and serious leadership is critically important, especially during a national crisis.
That’s why last week we asked CREDO members to weigh in on their preference for president in November’s election: Do you support Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden, and which political issues matter to you the most?
Thousands of CREDO members filled out our survey — for each response we’ll plant a tree — and here are the results.
Out of the 7,000 responses that we received – that’s 7,000 trees we’ll plant! – the choice for president was clear: Bernie Sanders received 54% of the vote. Joe Biden came in second with 43%, and Tulsi Gabbard rounded out third place with 1%.
We then asked our members which two political issues were most important to them right now. While all progressive issues are important, of course, CREDO members overwhelmingly chose “combating climate change” and “income and wealth inequality.”
Lastly, we asked our members whether or not they knew CREDO donated $150,000 every month to progressive organizations.
Approximately 20% of respondents didn’t know that we are able to donate nearly $2 million each year to groups working on women’s rights, climate change, LGBTQ equality and more because of our members who use their CREDO Mobile devices and service every day.
Because of our customers, we’ve been able to donate more than $88 million in total to groups like Color of Change, Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network and March for Our Lives.
This month, three amazing groups — Americans for Tax Fairness, Friends of the Earth and NARAL Pro-Choice America — are eligible to receive a portion of our $150,000 grant, powered by our members. Click here to learn more and help us decide how to distribute this month’s donation between these three groups.
Posted on March 18, 2020
5 great apps to help you manage stress and anxiety
Right now, many of us are feeling pretty uneasy and anxious. A spreading pandemic, an uncertain economy, a heightened political climate — and we’re all concerned about the health and well being of our family and friends.
During these challenging times, let’s remember to step back, take a break and manage our own stress and anxiety levels. We’ll be the first to admit that there’s a benefit to unplugging, picking up a book or enjoying an old hobby. But if you decide to stay connected, there are some good apps to help manage your stress.
We’ve put together a list of some of our favorite apps on iOS and Android to help all of us consider our mental health, de-stress and become a bit more mindful.
Headspace
Headspace is one of our favorite apps to help you cope with the stresses of work, family and life in general (that’s why we included it in our top apps to help keep your New Year’s resolutions). Headspace teaches you the basics of meditation and offers a library of courses and single session meditations that you can take anywhere. The company boasts a 40 million person user base and offers scientific claims (and an in-house science department) that its app can reduce stress, increase focus and improve sleep.
Headspace offers a two-week free trial, before a $69.99 yearly subscription, available on both Android and iOS.
Daily Yoga
If you’re looking to combine mindfulness and body movement, Daily Yoga may be a good choice for you. Designed for the beginner to the advanced, this “freemium” app (free to access many of its features, but includes in-app purchases) includes 200 yoga routines, 500 yoga poses and asanas, lots of guided meditation tracks and more.
Available in the App Store and Google Play.
MindShift
Designed by the Anxiety Disorders Association of British Columbia, MindShift is based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and helps track anxiety disorders primarily for adolescents and young adults, but the app can be useful for everyone to learn coping strategies for anxiety, worry and panic. The app features a section called “chill out” that includes relaxation exercises and mindfulness strategies.
Available in the App Store and Google Play.
Happify
Billed as the “single destination for effective, evidence-based solutions for better mental health to overcome negative thoughts, stress, and life’s challenges,” Happify uses evidence-based exercises and games developed by experts to help users take better control of their thoughts and feelings. The company claims 86% of frequent users get happier in two months, but we urge you to try it out for yourself.
The app is free to download but charges a fee to unlock additional features. Available in the App Store and Google Play.
7-Minute Workout from the New York Times
If working out is your stress-reliever — but your gym is currently closed and you’re practicing social distancing (which we recommend) — there are a lot of workout apps available for your mobile device. While some apps require equipment and others charge a fee, the New York Times’ 7-minute workout “app” is free, scientifically proven and only needs you and common items in your home to take advantage of a short, but intense workout.
The app offers step-by-step instructions, illustrations of each body-weight exercise and a timer to guide you through one of two routines: the Scientific 7-Minute Workout and an Advanced 7-Minute Workout. The app is browser-based, so you can access it from virtually any device or desktop. Check them both out here.
Note: There’s no replacement for a health professional, for both your physical and mental health. If you feel you’re in need of help, please contact your mental health provider or your primary care physician.
Posted on March 12, 2020
CREDO Tip: Easy ways to clean, organize and update your technology this Spring
Spring is almost upon us and that means it’s time for spring cleaning! You might have plans to store your winter clothes, deep clean your appliances and organize your closets.
But now is also a great time to clean, update, disinfect and organize your digital lives, including your computers, devices and workstation areas. Here are some easy spring cleaning tips for your technology.
Physically clean your devices.
It’s always good to practice proper device hygiene, but with Coronavirus spreading across the country, now is probably the best time to start a cleaning routine.
For your handheld devices, use a good, lint-free microfiber or lens cleaning cloth to remove oil and fingerprints. If your phone case is waterproof, wash it thoroughly with soap and water. To disinfect your devices, Apple suggests using 70 percent isopropyl alcohol or Clorox Disinfecting Wipes (which may be in short supply in your area), but avoid bleach and don’t submerge your phone in liquids. Android Central has some additional tips on cleaning and disinfecting your Android phone, including phone cleaning kits and disinfectant wipes.
For your laptop and computer workstation, that microfiber cloth comes in handy to clean the smudges from your monitor. Use a can of compressed air on your keyboard to remove crumbs. Apply disinfectant wipes or a cloth dipped in isopropyl alcohol to clean your keyboard and mouse/trackpad. If you have a desktop-style computer and you’ve never cleaned the inside of the machine, shutdown and unplug your workstation. Open the case and use the compressed air to remove dust from the fan and internal components. Here are some additional tips from CNet.
Note: As COVID-19 (Coronavirus) spreads, so has the misinformation regarding the virus. To ensure you’re receiving the most accurate and up-to-date information to keep you and your family safe, please visit the CDC’s Coronavirus website or the WHO’s Coronavirus website.
Update your software and operating systems.
If you’re anything like us, you ignore those daily notifications to update your phone’s OS or computer applications. But keeping your software and operating systems up to date is important to the health and security of your technology.
If you’ve been putting it off for a while, consider setting aside an hour or two on a weekend, especially if you need to update your computer’s OS. Be sure to update your antivirus software, too! If you don’t have automatic updates turned on, you might want to consider it to save you time and hassle in the future. Here are some tips from Wired.
Backup your data.
Are you backing up your data in case your computer or devices break or are lost? If not, you should! If you are backing up your data, have you checked recently to ensure your backups are scheduled and running properly?
For your phone or tablet, an online or cloud solution is the easiest way to backup your photos, messages and other data. For Apple devices, you can use iCloud, which is built into your devices. For Android, you can use Google Drive. Check your settings to make sure that these services are turned on and working properly.
For your computer, you have a number of options, in addition to iCloud and Google Drive, like manual backups, external hard drives and automatic online services. Here are good tutorials from Wirecutter (with external storage suggestions) and PC World. And, for reference, here are the official tutorials to backup and restore your computer from Microsoft and Apple.
Organize your laptop or desktop.
Are your desktop and folders cluttered with useless files and junk? Do you feel like your computer may be a little sluggish? Here are a few quick steps to declutter and speed things up.
After you’ve updated your system software, delete unused applications, search for and delete large and unwanted files that are taking up lots of space (here are some tips from Lifehacker.) Then download and install a system optimizer like OnyX or CCleaner that can run routine cleaning and optimizing tasks to free up disk space, delete system and application cache, rebuild databases and generally get rid of clutter.
Organize and clean up your inbox.
Do you have thousands of unread emails that you swear you’ll read at some point? Is your inbox keeping you in a constant state of anxiety? It’s probably time to do a little email housekeeping.
Depending on your email provider or the application you use, the steps may be different, but the concepts are the same:
- Set up filters, labels, folders or categories to organize your incoming mail
- Use those labels or filters to divert spam
- Unsubscribe from lists you no longer read or find useful
- Mass delete old emails you’ll never read (or read again)
- Delete messages taking up a lot of space
Here are some detailed tips from Thrillist (if you use Gmail) and PC World (if you use Outlook).
Posted on March 9, 2020
How our buying choices actually change the world
Does making better consumer choices really help save the world?
We get that question a lot, and, of course we think so! For more than 30 years, CREDO’s mission has been to give consumers the opportunity to create positive social change with everyday acts of commerce.
Maeve Higgins, host of the great podcast Mothers of Invention (a podcast we highly recommend!), recently asked that same question in the New York Times after she closed her Chase bank account because Chase and other big banks continue to fund dirty fossil fuel companies that contribute to the climate crisis.
But does one person’s action make an impact? Of course, because there’s power in numbers. As Higgins puts it, “The actions I’m taking are small, but I hope they’re building up….If everybody took action — I mean every single one of us — we would be plain sailing.”
So what can you do to help save the world? Sure, you too can close your big bank account. But you can also drop your current mobile phone company — a company that might be funding the Trump administration and other right-wing causes — and switch to CREDO, the carrier with a conscience that donates nearly $2 million a year to the causes we all care about.
AT&T, for example, has a long history of fighting against our progressive values. The company has proven to be a staunch supporter of corporate greed, Republican politicians and right-wing interests. They’ve donated millions to Donald Trump, contributed to anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion politicians, laid off workers after receiving massive tax cuts and even helped re-elect a white supremacist to office. (Here are 8 reasons to drop AT&T.)
Likewise, T-Mobile not only hired Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, it copied pages from the corporate playbook to curry favor with Trump: Book some rooms at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. After announcing a $26 billion mega-merger that needed approval by the Trump administration, T-Mobile executives, including its outspoken CEO John Legere, booked at least 38 nights and spent at least $195,000 at Trump’s hotel.
Other mobile carriers may be putting profits above values, but that doesn’t mean you have to. Here at CREDO, we would never attempt to curry favor with Trump or fund right-wing causes. Just the opposite. Every month, we donate to three great progressive nonprofits — groups that are fighting for climate justice, civil rights, reproductive freedom, LGBTQ and women’s rights, economic equality and more.
So yes, you too can make a difference, create progress and do your part to help save the world. Learn more and join us today at CREDOMobile.com.
Posted on March 4, 2020
CREDO Tip: How workers can celebrate Employee Appreciation Day
Today marks Employee Appreciation Day, an unofficial holiday for companies and workplaces to recognize the hard work and dedication of their employees.
Here at CREDO, we’re fortunate to have a team who lives our values everyday and appreciates our work with good pay and morale-building throughout the year, like employee rewards and recognition, company outings and our favorite Cheese Wednesdays and Bagel Fridays.
But for many, especially minimum or sub-minimum wage workers and immigrant and undocumented workers, Employee Appreciation Day is a class privilege and hollow gesture. Wages have stagnated. Labor union membership is declining. Workplace harassment still exists, despite the #MeToo movement. Immigrants live in fear of ICE raids and deportations.
On this Employee Appreciation Day, we’d like to share a couple tips on how you can build a better workplace for you and your co-workers and stand in solidarity with workers who deserve better working conditions.
Be an ethical home employer
Do you hire workers in your home, like house cleaners, home attendants or childcare providers? Be sure to hire and treat your employees ethically by creating a mutually beneficial and supportive work relationship that includes fair pay, clear expectations, paid time off and a safe workplace.
Our allies and grant recipients at the National Domestic Workers Alliance run “Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network” where you can learn more about how to be an ethical employer at home.
Resist racist deportation policies
All immigrants deserve protection, dignity and respect, yet our current administration and its cruel policies are forcing the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country to live in constant fear of arrest and deportation. DREAMers, who have been eligible for work and deserve a path to citizenship, are constant targets of Donald Trump, who has promised to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, and whose ICE agency threatens to deport them.
Support organizations who fight the Trump administration’s cruel and racist deportation regime and for more just immigration policies, including CREDO grantees Movimiento Cosecha, United We Dream, Detention Watch Network and Mijente.
Support a living wage and better workplace policies
Nearly 2 million workers are earning wages at or below the minimum wage — which has been stuck at $7.25 per hour for more than a decade. That’s hardly a living wage. In fact, adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage is worth 17% less than it was 10 years ago.
What’s more, many of these workers endure discrimination based on gender, race and family status. Millions of women — especially those in tipped jobs — experience sexual harassment at a high rate and have unpredictable and unfair work schedules and little or no access to child care.
Stand with these workers and support policies and lawmakers who want to raise wages, improve working conditions, end harassment, fight for racial equity and more. Learn how you can help from our ally and grantee ROC United.
Posted on March 3, 2020
Our February grantees thank you for your support
Each month, CREDO members vote on how we distribute funding to three incredible nonprofits. Those small actions add up – with one click, you can help fund groups fighting for climate justice, peace and women’s rights. In February, over 40,000 CREDO members voted to distribute our monthly donation to 350.org, Peace Action and UltraViolet.
These donations are made possible by CREDO customers and the revenue they generate by using our services. The distribution depends entirely on the votes of CREDO members like you. And for that, our February grant recipients thank you.
350.org
$62,195
“Thank you for supporting 350.org! Passionate CREDO members like you help us stop fossil fuel projects and build a 100% renewable energy future that is just, prosperous, and equitable for all.” – May Boeve, Executive Director
To learn more, visit 350.org.
Peace Action
$36,491
“On behalf of Peace Action, our deepest gratitude for the partnership and support of CREDO members for our organization and for your confidence in our work for a more peaceful and just future. Thank you!” – Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and Peace Action Education Fund
To learn more, visit peaceaction.org.
UltraViolet
$51,314
“We couldn’t do this without you. CREDO members like you make it possible for UltraViolet to build a diverse feminist community online by creating compelling stories and offering ways to take action to advance gender justice and equity. Thank you!” – Shaunna Thomas, Co-Founder and Executive Director
To learn more, visit weareultraviolet.org.
Now check out the three groups we are funding in March, and cast your vote to help distribute our donations.
CREDO members who use our products are the reason why we are able to make these donations each month. Learn more about CREDO Mobile, the carrier with a conscience.
Posted on March 2, 2020
Vote for Americans for Tax Fairness, Friends of the Earth and NARAL Pro-Choice America this March
Every month, CREDO members vote to distribute our monthly donation to three incredible progressive causes – and every vote makes a difference. This March, you can support groups fighting for economic justice, the environment and climate justice and women’s rights and reproductive freedom by voting to fund Americans for Tax Fairness, Friends of the Earth and NARAL Pro-Choice America.
ATF mobilizes public support for progressive tax reform, so we have the revenue to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and to make new investments in education, housing, infrastructure, and more to create an economy that works for all.
A grant from CREDO would cover expenses for ATF’s part-time writer, who provides the backbone of the content generation that so many groups depend on, and a chunk of ATF’s email consultant, who makes ATF’s online activism program successful.
Friends of the Earth defends the environment and champions a more healthy and just world. The organization works at the nexus of environmental protection, economic policy and social justice to fundamentally transform the way people and the environment are valued.
Support from CREDO will help Friends of the Earth protect our environment from Trump and his efforts to dismantle essential protections for clean air, water and a healthy climate, uniting with our international federation of partners in 75 countries.
NARAL is powered by its 2.5 million members in all 50 states. The group represents the 7 in 10 Americans who support reproductive freedom and believe every person should be able to make personal decisions about pregnancy free from political interference.
A CREDO grant would allow NARAL to expand its impact, working to protect and expand abortion access across the country, while mobilizing the organization’s members with a comprehensive strategy to drive voter turnout in states critical to 2020.
Your vote this month will determine how we divide our monthly donation among these three progressive groups. Be sure to cast your vote to support one, two or all three by March 31.
CREDO members who use our products and services everyday are the reason we are able to make these donations each month. Learn more about CREDO Mobile and CREDO Energy and join our movement.
Posted on February 25, 2020
CREDO Tip: 5 secure messaging apps to keep your conversations private
“If I’m not breaking the law, why do I care if someone reads my messages? I have nothing to hide.”
We’ve heard a lot of versions of this conversation here at CREDO. And the reality is, even if you’re not doing something illegal, you should care about surveillance.
With an authoritarian in the White House — who has every tool of mass surveillance at his disposal — all bets are off. Even if you’re not Muslim or an undocumented immigrant, or have family in another country, or are a Black Lives Matter activist or an investigative journalist, or just an ally of progressive causes, you should care.
Let’s ask this: Would you let the government place cameras or listening devices in your home? That’s the equivalent of digital mass surveillance. And we know that the government, with help from major telecom companies like AT&T — considered the NSA’s “most trusted partner” — has been engaging in illegal mass surveillance operations.
That’s why we think it’s probably a good idea to consider protecting the communications on your phone if you share some of these concerns. Here are a few apps you can use.
Signal
The best messaging apps use end-to-end encryption, a method of encoding the message so that only the sender and the recipient can read it, even if the data were intercepted en route. And Signal’s end-to-end encryption is one of the best: its engine is open source, which means the code is continuously reviewed for bugs and loopholes. It’s sort of the Linux of the secure-messaging world. Signal is supported by grants and donations, which means the app has no ads, no affiliate marketing, and no tracking. Its security platform is used by WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger.
Signal is free and its interface is refreshingly simple. A great feature is the ability to set a timer on messages so they disappear or “self-destruct” after a period of time. Signal is the favorite messaging app of Edward Snowden, who knows a thing or two about security. And when WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton quit Facebook in protest against Facebook’s plan to put ads on WhatsApp, he joined Signal.
Here are two tutorials for using Signal from our ally and grantee recipient the Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Install Signal for iOS or Android.
WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, used by over 1.5 billion people every day. It’s free and available to Android and iOS users. It provides end-to-end encryption by default – you don’t have to turn it on, it’s always there. You can back-up your messages to Google Drive if you choose, so you can restore them on a new Android device.
WhatsApp is, however, owned by Facebook, which has a disturbingly poor record on privacy. Facebook also had planned to monetize WhatsApp with advertising, raising significant privacy concerns for an encrypted messaging service, but recently scrapped those plans for now.
You can download WhatsApp here for iOS and Android.
Wickr
Like Signal, Wickr is another open source messaging app with end-to-end encryption that allows you to set up self-destructing messages and group chat rooms for secure collaboration.
Unlike Signal, you don’t need a phone number to register, which could have some benefits, especially if you want to communicate with the public in a secure way without having to publish your phone number. The company also claims to not have the keys to decrypt your private messages so once your messages are deleted, law enforcement, the government not the company can retrieve them.
Install Wickr for iOS and Android.
Telegram
Telegram is a cloud-based app, which brings advantages and disadvantages. On the upside, it delivers messages very quickly (faster than any other secure-messaging app, it claims) and allows you to share an unlimited number of photos, videos and files, including .doc, .zip and .mp3 – up to 1.5 GB each.
On the downside, cloud storage means Telegram does not offer end-to-end encryption by default. To get it, you have to turn on Secret Chats in the app’s settings. All Secret Chats are device-specific and never enter the Telegram cloud. Messages in Secret Chats cannot be forwarded, and when you delete messages on your end of the conversation, they will also be deleted at the receiver’s end.
Telegram’s code is open source. It’s free, serves no ads and does not push in-app purchases.
Get Telegram for iOS and Android.
Viber
Viber, which is used by close to 1 billion people, is used in over 190 countries and provides end-to-end encryption by default. It’s free and available to Android and iOS users. Viber does come with ads and in-app purchases. It also leans toward the young user, offering a large library of stickers (some free, some not) directly on the interface. Which is cool if you’re a sticker fan but distracting if you’re not.
In addition to its Secret Chats feature (which makes messages disappear after a set time), Viber also lets you manually delete messages you’ve sent – from your own phone and also from the phones of the people you’ve sent it to. The company is owned by Japanese e-commerce and internet giant Rakuten and based in Luxembourg.
Get Viber for iOS and Android.
CREDO Mobile and Privacy
Here at CREDO, we take privacy very seriously. Respecting our customers’ privacy rights is a core mission of our company, we have a long history of fighting for it — and we’ve consistently been recognized for it.
Unlike other carriers like AT&T and T-Mobile, who sell their customers’ private data for profit – your data is not for sale at CREDO. No amount of money will ever change that. We were the first carrier to issue a transparency report in 2014 and we now issue quarterly transparency reports detailing requests by the government for customer data.
Learn more about how CREDO fights for our customers’ privacy rights.
Posted on February 19, 2020
CREDO Tip: What is dark mode — and should you use it?
If you’re like most of us here at CREDO, you probably use your phone or tablet a lot. In fact, the average American uses their mobile devices almost 4 hours a day!
With all that use, we can develop eye strain, loss of sleep, reduced productivity and a drained battery. What if there were a mode on your phone to reduce all of those?
While we wish there were a magic way to cure all our phone ailments, we *are* able to adjust and possibly improve our experience with built-in features found right inside the settings of our phones or tablets.
Enter “dark mode.” You may have heard of it; you may even be reading this in dark mode right now.
So what is dark mode, will it enhance your experience on your device, and should you try it out? Here’s a quick explainer.
What is dark mode?
As you may have guessed, dark mode is setting that darkens your display and user interface on your device and in many apps, inverting the background and text colors from dark text on a light background to light text on a dark background.
Here’s an example from the Twitter app on an iPhone:
Dark mode now comes as an option natively with Apple’s iOS 13 and Google’s Android 10. Many popular apps, including Chrome, Instagram and Twitter, also support dark mode. The Verge keeps a running list of apps that support dark mode.
Why use dark mode?
According to the big tech companies, dark mode is helpful in a number of ways, including:
- Making it easier to stay focused
- Improving visibility for people with low vision or have sensitivity to bright light
- Reducing eye strain especially in low light conditions
- Improving battery life, especially for devices with OLED and AMOLED screens (which include most newer devices made by popular manufacturers)
- It looks pretty cool.
There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence to back up most of these claims, however many experts have recently called into question whether dark mode can really reduce eye strain. VICE’s “Dark Mode Isn’t ‘Easier on the Eyes’ for Everybody” and Wired’s “Dark mode isn’t as good for your eyes as you believe” explain why the claim may be a bit of folklore. (We think you should try it out for yourself, though!)
Does dark mode help with sleep?
It’s complicated.
Studies have shown that the blue light emitted from screens can negatively affect circadian rhythms and make falling asleep more difficult. For years, Android and iOS devices have included a “night shift” or “night mode” that imparts a warmer, orange-yellow hue, reducing cooler, blue light from screens, presumably to help sleep.
But a recent study from the University of Manchester in the U.K. suggests just the opposite. Researchers found that the body may actually use the “dim and blue appearance of twilight” to signal sleep, and features on our phones could be sending us mixed messages.
How about dark mode, then? The American Academy of Ophthalmology suggests that it’s probably a good idea to use dark mode — which is generally darker than a “night shift” mode — combined with reduced screen time at night to improve sleep.
How to enable dark mode on your device
Ready to give dark mode a try? Here’s how to turn it on:
Apple iOS and iPadOS devices (version 13 or above)
There are three ways to turn on dark mode from your Apple device
- If you use Siri, simply say
- “Hey Siri, turn on dark mode,” or
- “Siri, turn on dark appearance.”
- To enable dark mode from the Control Center:
- Swipe down from the top right corner of the device (or swipe up from the bottom on older devices)
- Touch and hold the brightness control
- Toggle dark mode on or off
- To enable dark mode from Settings:
- Go to Settings, then to Display & Brightness.
- Select “Dark” to turn on dark mode.
Google Android devices (version 9 or higher)
- Go to the Settings app
- Tap Display
- Toggle “Dark Theme” on or off
