Setting Android 10 Dark theme on and off with adb shell - how to do it without reboot?

Question

To Enable Dark Mode:

adb shell settings put secure ui_night_mode 2

To Disable Dark Mode:

adb shell settings put secure ui_night_mode 1

For Auto Dark Mode:

adb shell settings put secure ui_night_mode 0

and then

adb reboot

My question is how to change Dark mode without abd reboot ?

Answer 1

This worked for me, no need for root.

adb shell "cmd uimode night yes"

Answer 2

On root devices

To Enable Dark Mode:

adb shell "su 0 cmd uimode night yes"

To Disable Dark Mode:

adb shell "su 0 cmd uimode night no"

For Auto Dark Mode:

adb shell "su 0 cmd uimode night auto"