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How to activate Facebook Messenger’s hidden Dark Mode

We’ve found a cool way to activate the promised Dark Mode feature in Facebook Messenger.

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Promised as a feature to be introduced with the Messenger’s fourth major version release, the dark mode touts an all-black screen with only images and text gaining brighter colors.

To activate the said feature, send a crescent moon emoji (:crescent_moon:) to any of your existing chats, and a falling moon animation will pop up. Once done, head over to your messenger settings and toggle it on. Be warned, though, that not all features have already been converted to a dark mode mention as a popup will warn you of such when you toggle it on the first time.

The said easter egg is available for both Android and iOS variants of the messenger app. Facebook plans to officially roll out this feature in the coming weeks or months to all users, so you may use this method the soonest if you want to have a fresh look, or want to save energy with your AMOLED display.

With reports from Heland Ortega

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22 Responses

  1. Avatar for Turtl3s Turtl3s says:

    I did mine on my Pocophone F1 and it works… Had trouble looking for the crescent moon emoji but I found it, sent it to 1 of my chat groups, falling moons appeared, went to settings and “Dark Mode” is on top.

  2. Avatar for Delia C Delia C says:

    Did this setting in my iPhone X dark iOs12 but no falling crescent moon nor dark mode happened. Although this is the latest version

  3. Avatar for chaos1 chaos1 says:

    It’s too dark for me. It could be more like Android Messages’ dark mode.

  4. Avatar for Deyb Santos Deyb Santos says:

    ?

  5. Avatar for Deyb Santos Deyb Santos says:

    ?

  6. Avatar for Deyb Santos Deyb Santos says:

    ?

  7. Avatar for Chelle Chelle says:

    I want this

  8. Avatar for AGNELL MAAGAD AGNELL MAAGAD says:

    Not working on my friend’s android M phone. I updated the app, sent a crescent moon emoji, pop up message appeared stating dark mode has been found, but its switch does not exist in the settings menu.

  9. Avatar for mema mema says:

    nagawa ko na ito dati pa, modified ko sya using apk editor. dami nian sa forum site

  10. Avatar for tin tin says:

    biglang nawala sa kin nung narestart phone ko :(

  11. Avatar for Anaswar V Rajan Anaswar V Rajan says:

    Chat UI still white tho ??? weirdest dark mode ever

  12. Avatar for Kimmot Kimmot says:

    Andamot ng messeger na to., pati instant games wala ako..

  13. Avatar for cleriza gonzales cleriza gonzales says:

    Activate my dark mode In messenger please..Its cool .Thanks

  14. Avatar for Rayquaza Rayquaza says:

    It is working. You need to use beta version. Visit apkmirror for download links

  15. Avatar for Bry Bry says:

    Awesome

  16. Avatar for Jo ker Jo ker says:

    Activate my dark mode messenger please..

  17. Avatar for Arcy Arcy says:

    Sent a crescent moon but nothing happens.

  18. Avatar for drex drex says:

    how about the full page keyboard?
    any idea how to dea with it?

  19. Avatar for Ester janer Ester janer says:

    Payagan

  20. Avatar for James James says:

    I have the latest version 204.0.0.14.119 still not working

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