Dark mode on the Facebook Messenger app is about to become smarter. Facebook is finally planning to allow the theme to adjust itself based on your system settings. In other words, if your phone is set to ‘dark mode’, so will the Facebook Messenger.
Dark mode on Facebook Messenger is about to become smarter thanks to a new feature
This is a feature that is a part of a lot of apps these days, and it’s interesting it took Facebook this long to bring it forth. Dark mode has been a part of the Facebook Messenger app since 2019.
The company started rolling out dark mode to its messaging app back in April 2019, after testing it for several months. That being said, this new feature could arrive to the app in the near future, it already did for some people, it seems.
A user on Reddit received the feature, but only on one of his accounts. He received it in app version 314.1.0.19.119. Other users have tried to locate it in that version of the app, and even in newer versions (beta ones), but were unable to do it. You can check out the feature in the screenshot below.
It seems like Facebook is currently testing this feature
By the looks of it, Facebook is in the process of testing the new feature, and it is rolling it out to some people / devices only. It is seemingly activated via a server-side switch, which is unsurprising.
Still, considering that it is in testing at the moment, probably means we’ll all get it soon. It’s not a huge change / feature, so it shouldn’t take long for Facebook to test it out.
If you’re amongst the people who are annoyed they have to activate dark mode manually, well, you’ll be happy once this feature arrives. If you’re constantly using one mode only, in all your apps, chances are you’re not bothered by this. Only people who change their theme settings often will find this useful.