diff --git a/android/app/src/main/res/drawable/launch_background.xml b/android/app/src/main/res/drawable/launch_background.xml
index 304732f8..9933510e 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/res/drawable/launch_background.xml
+++ b/android/app/src/main/res/drawable/launch_background.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <!-- Modify this file to customize your launch splash screen -->
 <layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
-    <item android:drawable="@android:color/white" />
+    <item android:drawable="@color/splash_background" />
 
     <!-- You can insert your own image assets here -->
     <!-- <item>
diff --git a/android/app/src/main/res/values-television/colors.xml b/android/app/src/main/res/values-television/colors.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..868bd5c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/app/src/main/res/values-television/colors.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<resources>
+    <!-- TV (Android TV / Google TV / Fire TV) launch + window background.
+         The television UI-mode qualifier outranks night/notnight, so this wins
+         even on TVs that report notnight (most do) where values/ would resolve
+         the near-white #F7F7F8. Black matches the OLED default theme on TV. -->
+    <color name="splash_background">#000000</color>
+</resources>
diff --git a/ios/Runner/Assets.xcassets/LaunchBackground.colorset/Contents.json b/ios/Runner/Assets.xcassets/LaunchBackground.colorset/Contents.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8231d22c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ios/Runner/Assets.xcassets/LaunchBackground.colorset/Contents.json
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+{
+  "colors" : [
+    {
+      "color" : {
+        "color-space" : "srgb",
+        "components" : {
+          "alpha" : "1.000",
+          "blue" : "0xF8",
+          "green" : "0xF7",
+          "red" : "0xF7"
+        }
+      },
+      "idiom" : "universal"
+    },
+    {
+      "appearances" : [
+        {
+          "appearance" : "luminosity",
+          "value" : "dark"
+        }
+      ],
+      "color" : {
+        "color-space" : "srgb",
+        "components" : {
+          "alpha" : "1.000",
+          "blue" : "0x12",
+          "green" : "0x0F",
+          "red" : "0x0E"
+        }
+      },
+      "idiom" : "universal"
+    }
+  ],
+  "info" : {
+    "author" : "xcode",
+    "version" : 1
+  }
+}
diff --git a/ios/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard b/ios/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard
index f2e259c7..90ffebb5 100644
--- a/ios/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard
+++ b/ios/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
     <dependencies>
         <deployment identifier="iOS"/>
         <plugIn identifier="com.apple.InterfaceBuilder.IBCocoaTouchPlugin" version="12089"/>
+        <capability name="Named colors" minToolsVersion="9.0"/>
     </dependencies>
     <scenes>
         <!--View Controller-->
@@ -19,7 +20,7 @@
                             <imageView opaque="NO" clipsSubviews="YES" multipleTouchEnabled="YES" contentMode="center" image="LaunchImage" translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints="NO" id="YRO-k0-Ey4">
                             </imageView>
                         </subviews>
-                        <color key="backgroundColor" red="1" green="1" blue="1" alpha="1" colorSpace="custom" customColorSpace="sRGB"/>
+                        <color key="backgroundColor" name="LaunchBackground"/>
                         <constraints>
                             <constraint firstItem="YRO-k0-Ey4" firstAttribute="centerX" secondItem="Ze5-6b-2t3" secondAttribute="centerX" id="1a2-6s-vTC"/>
                             <constraint firstItem="YRO-k0-Ey4" firstAttribute="centerY" secondItem="Ze5-6b-2t3" secondAttribute="centerY" id="4X2-HB-R7a"/>
@@ -33,5 +34,8 @@
     </scenes>
     <resources>
         <image name="LaunchImage" width="168" height="185"/>
+        <namedColor name="LaunchBackground">
+            <color red="0.96862745098039216" green="0.96862745098039216" blue="0.97254901960784312" alpha="1" colorSpace="custom" customColorSpace="sRGB"/>
+        </namedColor>
     </resources>
 </document>
diff --git a/lib/providers/theme_provider.dart b/lib/providers/theme_provider.dart
index 82d965a8..0469fec1 100644
--- a/lib/providers/theme_provider.dart
+++ b/lib/providers/theme_provider.dart
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ class ThemeProvider extends ChangeNotifier with DisposableChangeNotifierMixin {
 
   ThemeProvider() {
     _systemBrightness = WidgetsBinding.instance.platformDispatcher.platformBrightness;
+    // Seed synchronously when settings are already loaded (main() initializes
+    // them before runApp) so the first frame paints the persisted theme; the
+    // async path below lands a microtask too late for the first build.
+    final loaded = settings.SettingsService.instanceOrNull;
+    if (loaded != null) _themeMode = loaded.read(settings.SettingsService.themeMode);
     _initializeSettings();
     WidgetsBinding.instance.platformDispatcher.onPlatformBrightnessChanged = _onBrightnessChanged;
   }
diff --git a/tvos/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard b/tvos/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard
index 7fe307be..de255e3f 100644
--- a/tvos/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard
+++ b/tvos/Runner/Base.lproj/LaunchScreen.storyboard
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
                                 <rect key="frame" x="959.5" y="539.5" width="1" height="1"/>
                             </imageView>
                         </subviews>
-                        <color key="backgroundColor" red="1" green="1" blue="1" alpha="1" colorSpace="custom" customColorSpace="sRGB"/>
+                        <color key="backgroundColor" red="0.0" green="0.0" blue="0.0" alpha="1" colorSpace="custom" customColorSpace="sRGB"/>
                         <constraints>
                             <constraint firstItem="YRO-k0-Ey4" firstAttribute="centerX" secondItem="Ze5-6b-2t3" secondAttribute="centerX" id="1a2-6s-vTC"/>
                             <constraint firstItem="YRO-k0-Ey4" firstAttribute="centerY" secondItem="Ze5-6b-2t3" secondAttribute="centerY" id="4X2-HB-R7a"/>