Yandex Browser appearance
You can switch to the dark theme and change the background on which the SmartBox and Tableau appear in new tabs.
Dark theme
By default, Yandex Browser elements (like tabs and the SmartBox) are displayed on a light background. To change your Yandex Browser theme:
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Tap → Settings → General → Interface theme.
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Select one of the options:
- Always dark
- Always light
- System settings
Dark theme for yandex.com
You can enable the dark theme for the Yandex Home page, search results, and services:
In the Home page settings
On the settings page, go to General → External appearance and select Always dark.
In the search results
Note
To select the theme for search result pages, log in with your Yandex ID.
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Scroll up the search results page.
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In the top-right corner, tap your profile picture.
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Tap Appearance → Always dark.
Yandex Browser background
You can use images as the background:
From the Background gallery
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Tap → Background gallery.
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Select an image from an album and tap Apply.
Note
You can configure the browser to randomly alternate images or videos from your Background gallery every 24 hours.
- For one album. Select the desired album in the Backgrounds gallery and tap Rotate backgrounds in this album.
- For all albums. In Background gallery, tap Alternate backgrounds daily.
From your smartphone
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Tap → Background gallery.
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Tap Upload from phone.
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Select a photograph in an album.
Interface language
You can change the language of your Yandex Browser interface.
Note
The feature is available for devices running on iOS version 13.0 and higher. If you have an earlier version of iOS, you have to change the system language on the device.
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Open your device settings.
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Tap Yandex Browser → Language.
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Select a language.
Alert
If the browser doesn't support the language you selected, the interface is in English.
FAQ
I changed the theme in the browser settings, but the yandex.com theme hasn't changed
The appearance of the Yandex Home page, search results, and services isn't linked to Yandex Browser. To make the yandex.com theme match the one in Yandex Browser, select the System settings option in the home page settings.
The yandex.com theme hasn't changed
If the home page theme hasn't changed after you selected System settings for the home page appearance, you might have selected a light or dark theme in the browser settings.
Select System settings for Yandex Browser as well.
The background changed by itself
- On the bottom panel under the SmartBox, tap , then .
- Tap Background gallery → Disable background rotation.