Switch Between Dark Blue, Light and MSFS Theme

The forum offers different themes (colour schemes):

Change the Theme on a Desktop/Laptop

  1. Click on your profile picture on the top navbar

  2. Click the person icon in the dropdown menu

  3. Choose the menu option :gear: Preferences

  4. Select the menu option Interface on the preferences menu on the left side of your screen

  5. Select a theme

  6. Click Save Changes at the bottom of the screen

Changing the Theme on a Phone

  1. Click on your profile picture on the top navbar

  2. Click the person icon at the top of the dropdown menu

  3. Choose the menu option :gear: Preferences

  4. Select the Interface option from the second dropdown - It will probably say ‘Account’ by default

  5. Select a theme

  6. Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen

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Feeling awfully dumb at the moment! My forum theme all of a sudden changed to Dark and I cannot get it back to Light. I followed the steps above but I no longer see Light and Dark as options, only “Microsoft Flight Simulator” and “Microsoft-Flight-Simulator-1.11.54”. Selecting either and saving makes no difference.

Screenshot:

Any suggestions/instructions please?

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Yes this is quite frustrating as I don’t use dark mode on anything. Messes with my eyes. Now I guess we’re forced to use it because reasons.

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Did the same thing happen to you?

Yeah I was on here earlier today and it was normal light mode and then I came back just a little bit ago to dark mode and no way to turn it off. I know some people like this dark mode thing but for me it’s basically ocular torture.

Thanks, so it hasn’t just happened to me. And I do not like it either. Question is, is it a glitch or is it by design? Time will tell I suppose.

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Yeah…me too. I go blind with this theme – not kidding… I have an eyesight disorder that reverses dark and light and places that over top of what I am trying to look at. This theme is mucHHARDER ON MY EYES THAN THE lIGHT THEME"

PLESSSAS BRUING IT BACK.

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Bring the light theme back!

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Deleted this one as it’s redundant.

Me too! I want the white background back, black is not for me, I like the white background

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Please return the light theme

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Searching like an idiot for the light theme. Glad it’s not only me

It seems to be a global change and not a positive one.

@Chewwy94 any chance someone could take a look please?

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This is a serious accessibility issue. Personally, I’m already getting a headache having to deal with this.

@Jummivana - is there anything that can be done to bring back the Light themes?

Hi, another vote for getting back the light theme.
I know almost everyone is raving about dark mode etc and they try to tell everyone it is less straining the eyes. But the opposite is true. With the background all dark your pupils have to open up wider and that narrows the depth of field in your vision. So the eyes have to do more work when focusing which puts more strain on them.
And if they are as old as mine this means quite some struggle.
I really hope we can get the light theme back.

Regards, Frank

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Hey, thanks for letting us know about this! We’ll take a look into this for you and ensure to let you know the outcome.

Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused to you all, and thanks again for bringing it to our attention.

The MSFS Team

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We chatted with our team and the white theme should be restored in our next update - it is a mistake on our end and should not happen again.

Thank you for the comments and will post here once it is fully restored as a selectable option.

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Excellent, thanks all!

It looks like the light theme is now selectable:

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Thanks for getting this fixed so quickly