Facebook Messenger 'Dark Mode' How to and Tips

[Foxglove9]

Not working for me in messenger on iPad Pro 2 12.9". When tapping the moon it just says "seen" on the bottom right of the message.

 

[Jorgediaz1361]

Worked for me. This is revolutionary and will change everything

I can't fidn the emoji they mentioned

 

[Fzang]

I can't fidn the emoji they mentioned

Just use the built-in emoji search function to quickly find what you’re looking for in roughly a thousand different emojis.

Ohhhh.

 

[arn]

I can't fidn the emoji they mentioned

You should be able to copy and paste it from the article: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/02/facebook-messenger-dark-mode/

The forum doesn’t support emoji yet. Soon.

 

[allenvanhellen]

Wow, what an innovative feature! I hope Siri is way smarter and Apple Maps etc. has way more data in iOS 13. I hope Apple fixes the layout of first-party apps to be operable with one hand. Landscape mode system wide would be great too, now that there’s the iPhone XS Max.

 

[AppleFan91]

You should be able to copy and paste it from the article: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/02/facebook-messenger-dark-mode/

The forum doesn’t support emoji yet. Soon.

But that tease though. Entire forum update?!?

 

[Hal~9000]

Yikes... using creepy facebook for anything nowadays, especially your personal conversations they can scan through via messenger:

 

[rmariboe]

Didn’t have to restart the app; worked instantly. And looks insanely great in the X’s OLED

 

[iRutherford]

Worked for me. This is revolutionary and will change everything

"It's the darkest theme we've ever made. It will change the way we look at our conversations forever."

 

[nathansz]

Wow, what an innovative feature! I hope Siri is way smarter and Apple Maps etc. has way more data in iOS 13. I hope Apple fixes the layout of first-party apps to be operable with one hand. Landscape mode system wide would be great too, now that there’s the iPhone XS Max.

my fix for one handed operation is to stick with my SE

 

[royinla14]

Force quit after you sent the emoji. Then go back to the chat and double tap the moon. Worked for me. Cool!

 

[Mizhou]

Why would any app wait until iOS 13? That would be a system wide Dark Mode, but third party apps can already have their Dark Mode right? Youtube app already has it, although it looks more like a grey mode. FB messenger looks really nice but it's an app I hardly use.

As a user/consumer I agree with you. As a developer, I can only say that it is a lot of more work to do, to implement a solution that will eventually also be incompatible with the system wide dark mode in iOS 13.

 

[jezbd1997]

Worked straight away for me. Some people it might not if the app isn’t up to date and/or it is still probably a gradual test rollout

 

[dampfnudel]

I’m looking forward to dark mode in iOS 13, but at the same time, I’m disappointed in Apple that it took until 2019 to say that.

 

[Apple_Robert]

When it comes to Facebook, you have to think about what else is hidden from the user that FB never mentions. I think people need to treat it as Malware.

 

[Brien]

As soon as I saw that Apple was pushing for dark mode detection in macOS Safai I had a feeling we’d see an iOS Dark Mode.

 

[infinitedreams]

My app is updated but still not working for me. Even tried force closing it.

 

[9052042]

not working for me

edit: after sending I force quit messenger then tapped on the moon in the chat and it worked!

Works after crashing app

 

[decypher44]

Worked for me right away. Didn’t need to close app.

It’s buggy. Some things don’t appear - like when you click on someone to chat with, and it has the “Wave” option, the ‘x’ to close out can’t be seen. Also, sometimes the vertical list of contact shows only small photos and no names to the right. But not always. Weird.

Not sure if I like the dark mode. The black does look nice on my XSMax, though.

 

[TwoBytes]

It’s a bit of a bait title to include ios13 considering I’ve been using apps since last year I have dark mode.

 

[Foxglove9]

My app is updated but still not working for me. Even tried force closing it.

It seems like the feature isn't available to everyone yet. Facebook is known to slowly roll out new features to small groups of people rather than all at once.

 

[adnbek]

You should be able to copy and paste it from the article: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/03/02/facebook-messenger-dark-mode/

The forum doesn’t support emoji yet. Soon.

I wanna know when the forum will support dark mode! That blistering white... 😱

 

[jmh600cbr]

This needs auto activation

 

[iGeek2014]

"It's the darkest theme we've ever made. It will change the way we look at our conversations forever."

It takes great courage to step out of the light ;-)

 

[19callum93]

Worked for me! Thanks. I really hope iOS 13 has dark mode.