{"id":146643,"date":"2019-08-13T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=146643"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:35:10","slug":"facebook-dark-mode-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-dark-mode-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook dark mode is coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-146645\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/04\/700_Facebook_nk1kxr.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook dark\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1 a.m. and you&#8217;re in bed. Your phone gets a notification. It&#8217;s your friend and they just tagged you in a photo. As you unlock your phone to check the notification, you are blinded by the piercing white light from Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it looks like your eyes are going to be saved as <strong>Facebook will soon have a dark mode.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This new feature was discovered by<a href=\"https:\/\/wongmjane.com\/blog\/fb-dark-mode\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Jane Manchun Wong<\/a>, a sleuth known for uncovering updates for apps like Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Facebook is working on Dark Mode for mobile<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a blog about this: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X5tAZuIlPz\">https:\/\/t.co\/X5tAZuIlPz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tip <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Techmeme?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Techmeme<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w3vYpRgxUY\">pic.twitter.com\/w3vYpRgxUY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wongmjane\/status\/1161058275774746624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As you can see in the tweet above, the text will be white on a black background. There is no official release date for dark mode. Wong discovered the update <strong>by looking at the code in the Android app.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/03\/facebook-spy-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">Facebook\u2019s future plans could eliminate all your privacy<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/facebooks-future-plans-could-eliminate-all-your-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Read Now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/facebooks-future-plans-could-eliminate-all-your-privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon you will be able to surf through Facebook all in a slick, new dark mode! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9180,"featured_media":146647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2353,2257,1059,1969],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-146643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook","tag-dark-mode","tag-facebook","tag-leak"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325587,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146643\/revisions\/325587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146643"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=146643"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=146643"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=146643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}