{"id":303258,"date":"2019-04-16T08:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=303258"},"modified":"2019-04-16T08:05:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:05:11","slug":"facebook-messenger-rolls-out-dark-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/303258-facebook-messenger-rolls-out-dark-mode.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Messenger rolls out dark mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has <a href=\"https:\/\/messengernews.fb.com\/2019\/04\/15\/dark-mode-is-now-available-globally-in-messenger-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it is making its dark mode feature for Messenger available to all users today.<\/p>\n<p>The feature was first tested last year, but was only available to certain users in a small selection of countries.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook technically made the update available to all users last month, but it had to be activated through an Easter egg that involved sending a message containing a crescent moon emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, Facebook has made its dark mode available to all users through more traditional channels.<\/p>\n<p>To implement the feature, you must tap on your profile picture to access your settings, from which you can toggle on dark mode.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond offering a dark aesthetic, Messenger&#8217;s dark mode also lowers the brightness of your\u00a0 display, which helps to cut down glare.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/303252-netflix-and-disney.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Netflix and Disney+<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has announced that it is releasing its dark mode feature for Messenger to all users today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":303266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[42606,161,8887],"class_list":["post-303258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-dark-mode","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-messenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303258"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303290,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303258\/revisions\/303290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}