Jane Wong, the student who revealed the upcoming Dark Mode on the Facebook app

Dark mode is perhaps one of the most requested features in the Facebook app. Now something has finally started to happen and it has been revealed once again by student Jane Wong.

Jane Manchun Wong is a computer science student who likes to explore the code of not only mobile applications in her spare time. In the past, it has revealed, for example, a function to hide a tweet in the Twitter application or that Instagram will stop showing the number of likes and add a function to monitor the time spent in the application. Recent successes include temporarily turning off Twitter notifications.

Wong has now revealed another upcoming feature. As always, she was examining the code of the Facebook application when she came across blocks of code that referred to Dark Mode. She shared her discovery again on her blog.

Facebook is working on Dark Mode for mobile

I wrote a blog about this: https://t.co/X5tAZuIlPz

Tip: @Techmeme pic.twitter.com/w3vYpRgxUY

- Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 12

Although Jane uses the code of Android apps in her research, in most cases they share functionality with their iOS counterparts. There's no reason why the newly revealed dark mode won't make its way to iPhones sooner or later.

Dark mode wherever you look

Dark mode in the Facebook app is still in its infancy. The pieces of code are not yet complete and only refer to some places. For example, rendering the font color correctly on a black background and switching it back to the system color is done.

Be the first that's how Messenger got a dark mode. He received it together with other updates already in April. Facebook also promised to get the social network application itself and its web version.

At the same time, the dark mode is one of the attractions of the upcoming iOS 13 operating system. It only gets it after macOS, which offers it since version 10.14 Mojave. So it was only a matter of time before the feature made its way to iOS. We have been clear since the WWDC 2019 developer conference in June, and with the first open beta versions, every fearless user could try the new version with dark mode.

So the question remains whether Facebook is preparing the function for September and will introduce it together in tandem with iOS 13. Or is the development delayed and we will see it only in the fall.

Source: 9to5Mac