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🎉 Great news folks, the good people at Gmail have finally fixed the forced dark mode issue. In both the iOS and Android apps 🎉 They now support setting the color-scheme meta tag prevent the forced dark colors being used <meta name="color-scheme" content="light only" /> #EmailGeeks

Mark Robbins

@goodemailcode.com

That's great, however it does mean that your prefers-color-scheme: dark media queries will no longer render in some clients that normally support them such as AppleMail. To get those working again you need to reset the color-scheme with CSS :root{ color-scheme:light dark; }

11/9/26, 3:35 pm1 repost0 likes

Mark Robbins

@goodemailcode.com

11 Sept

A little extra test and I can see this fix only works for Google emails. If you are using Gmail for a non google account (sometimes referred to as GANGA) then the meta tag gets removed and the work around doesn't apply.

elisabeth

@elisinator.bsky.social

14 Sept

thanks for sharing, that will make my work a little less frustrating when coming to dark mode.

Mark Robbins

@goodemailcode.com

14 Sept

Thanks, yeah it's a really helpful update from Gmail. Hoping more email clients follow suit.