WhatsApp Details How it Designed Dark Mode The arrival of Dark Mode on WhatsApp globally was first hinted by the company on social media platforms as it replaced the profile image with a dark background and WhatsApp logo. Late yesterday, WhatsApp published a blogpost saying detailing how it designed the Dark Mode for WhatsApp. While designing Dark Mode, WhatsApp spent time researching and experimenting with a focus on two particular areas- Readability and Information Hierarchy. Starting with Readability, when choosing colours, WhatsApp wanted to minimise eye fatigue and use colours that are closer to the system defaults on iPhone and Android, respectively. Next up is Information Hierarchy; WhatsApp wanted to help users easily focus attention on each screen and the company achieved it by using colour and other design elements to make sure the most important information stands out. It is also said that WhatsApp will soon provide an option to the users to select the colour combination. Right now, Dark Mode on WhatsApp for Android does not offer pick a Black colour, instead, it has a grey hue. But various reports on the web suggest that the company will soon introduce solid colours option to the users. How to Enable Dark Mode on WhatsApp? Users on Android 10 and iOS 13 can use dark mode by enabling it in system settings. Users on Android 9 Pie and below can go into WhatsApp Settings > Chats > Theme > select ‘Dark’. “We hope everyone enjoys dark mode, which is rolling out in the coming days on the latest version of WhatsApp,” said the company in the post. iOS 13 and Android 10 come with native Dark Mode support, so if a user enables it inside Settings, then WhatsApp will automatically shift to Dark Mode.
