Facebook confirms that it has tested a dark mode for its mobile apps, after the launch of a dark mode for its desktop interface. As SocialMedia Today first said, a very small percentage of people in the world have access to Facebook's dark mode, an email spokeswoman told The Verge on a Sunday. The mobile version of Facebook, the dark mode introduced for the desktop last month "is intended to decrease light," especially in low-lighted environments, said the speaker. There is not yet a timeline for when all mobile users can access the dark mode.
Users with the new obscure mode on mobile television screenshots what it looks like already:
Facebook appears to be rolling out Dark Mode... https://t.co/qSfDa8d51e
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) June 26, 2020
It is a little strange that it has taken that time for Facebook to develop the dark mode of a mobile device. It is already dark, like Facebook Messenger, its Instagram and WhatsApp applications. Twitter has for a while been running a night mode version of its Android and iOS apps and even earlier this year it launched a dark mode on its app.
Low light and dark mode variations – which enable users to change the background color of their application window to dark – are popular not only as they make apps for some users easier to view and a bit more esthetically pleasant; they can also help to maintain a hardware battery life in most dark mode versions.
