Upcoming PowerToys utility will finally let you set light and dark mode to cycle on a schedule in Windows 11

I swear, sometimes the only thing that actually wakes me up in the morning—besides enough caffeine to kill a small horse—is the retina searing brightness of a rogue default theme, usually from that one app I keep meaning to switch to dark mode. Now an upcoming PowerToys utility means I won't be jumpscared with a bright white blast to my eyeballs right before bed time.

For those unfamiliar, PowerToys is a Windows utility for those never content with a system default. Tucked away into the accompanying blog post for the PowerToys 0.94 update (via Windows Latest ) is news of a feature in the works that will "automatically switch between light and dark mode based on your schedule."

At present in Windows 11 , you can select dark mode by ducking into settings, then looking under personalisation