14 DAY TRIAL // A dark mode for WhatsApp is being developed, and it might make its way soon onto our devices, giving users some piece of mind.
A dark mode would seem like an obvious feature to have, in any operating system or application, but not all developers are quick to integrate something like that. If we look at Google, we’ll see that people have been asking for a dark mode for ages, and only now it arrived with Android 9 Pie.
And then we have WhatsApp, which is arguably the most used messaging application on the planet. It’s owned by Facebook, in case you forgot. A dark mode seems to something that should have been implemented already, but that’s not the case.
Could take a while
There are multiple reasons why WhatsApp should have a dark mode. It helps protect the eyes of users in dark environments, and it protects the display, especially the OLED ones which are more prone to problems due to the increased contrast.
According to an analysis from WABetaInfo, a dark mode is being implemented right now, and they found several references to it in some of the recent upgrades. And, to be fair, WhatsApp launches a new Beta update pretty much every day, so they are always working on something.
Since a stable version of WhatsApp was just released, it will most likely take a while until the next one. But by then we should see this feature enabled in the Beta branch long before it reaches the stable one.
WhatsApp should have added this option long ago, especially since the developers knew that Android 9 is going to have a dark mode. Now, when the dark mode is enabled in Android 9, WhatsApp is in contrast with the operating system.
If you want to get ahead of the curve, you can download the Beta version of WhatsApp from Softpedia, and make sure you check for the arrival of the dark mode.