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YouTube announced a dark theme for its website way back in May 2017, and it released its dark theme to iOS users back at the beginning of the year. When you go to YouTube's support page for Dark theme, you can see how easy it is to turn it on on Apple devices and on computers, but when you click on the Android tab, you get a slap in the face with "Dark theme is currently only available on IOS. Dark theme on Android is coming soon."

YouTube Music sports a dark theme on both its swanky new website and revamped Android app. YouTube Gaming's Android app has a dark theme, too. YouTube on Android TV even sports a dark theme — and a high-contrast black theme too. So what in the name of Material Design is holding up dark theme for the main YouTube app on Android? Verizon is offering the Pixel 4a for just $10/mo on new Unlimited lines

If the style and behavior of YouTube's dark theme were still being worked out, I could understand the delay, but they're already out and stable on iOS and YouTube.com. If YouTube looked different on every different skin of Android the way the core Android system did, it might take more time to nail the Dark theme down. But it doesn't. In fact, the dark theme is sitting deep in the code for the YouTube app installed on your Android phone right now, and we know it works because root users have been able to turn it on for over four months. So, really, why hasn't it been officially pushed out to Android users yet?