News & Reviews:   Dark Mode

Elon Musk is really pushing for his X brand and here's another change that's coming. X, formerly known as Twitter will soon only have 'dark mode'. Why? Because "it is better in every way," says Musk.

WhatsApp have rolled out a new feature to users, where you can set different wallpapers to different chats or contacts. This feature can also work as a visual indicator that helps you to avoid sending messages to the wrong chatroom. 

Oh yes, the day has finally come! Before we get to the news, we are well aware that some customized Android OS (like FunTouch OS by vivo, for example) already allows Dark Mode on Facebook but looks like the company finally did their own version. Here are some simple steps on how to activate it.

Remember this news from a few months ago? Back in June, sources claimed that Facebook was officially rolling out dark mode for mobile devices but months went by and the update didn't happen. Fortunately, it looks like the wait may finally be over.

Both iOS and Android started supporting dark mode at the system level last year and Google has rolled out dark modes for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google FIt as well as on its mobile app version over the past few months. Today, we found out that Google Chrome may finally be getting a dark mode soon.

Google has been steadily adding new features to its apps lately and even Google Maps isn't being left out. Recently, the company has announced that the app will be getting a new COVID-19 layer so you can check out where the hot zones are. Now, another feature is coming to the Android app first.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that dark mode is increasingly getting popular over the months, Instagram has it, so as WhatsApp and Facebook will have its own soon (third-party or lite version doesn't count). Now it seems that Android users will be getting dark mode too on some Google apps, which are the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.

It was just last week when we saw that WhatsApp was working on some features like animated stickers, but couldn't confirm when they would be released. Well, that question was answered yesterday when the company announced the new features in a blog post. These are expected to gradually roll out in the coming weeks.

We have been talking about Facebook mobile app dark mode for a while now. It was only two days ago that the company started testing out, but it seems that they have already rolled out the update to a few users. Keep in mind that this is not the same as Facebook lite nor third-party software that enables it, as this dark mode is from the mobile app itself.

A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Facebook was working on dark mode for Android and iOS. That's not too surprising, considering that we got dark mode for the desktop version in early May, so the mobile version was just a matter of time. Now, sources are claiming that Facebook has already begun testing dark mode for mobile.