{"id":322472,"date":"2019-10-08T07:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=322472"},"modified":"2019-10-08T07:44:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T05:44:01","slug":"whatsapp-dark-mode-is-coming-to-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/322472-whatsapp-dark-mode-is-coming-to-android.html","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp dark mode is coming to Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is developing a dark mode for its Android application, <a href=\"https:\/\/wabetainfo.com\/whatsapp-beta-for-android-2-19-282-whats-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WABetaInfo<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The latest beta version of the app (version 2.19.282) includes information regarding the platform&#8217;s upcoming &#8220;Dark Theme&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n<p>Once implemented, this feature will be accessible through a new section under WhatsApp&#8217;s Settings menu titled Theme Settings.<\/p>\n<p>From within the Theme Settings menu, WhatsApp users will be able to choose between three options: Light Theme, Dark Theme, and System Default.<\/p>\n<p>The Light Theme is the standard WhatsApp colour scheme currently used in the application, while the Dark Theme adopts blue and black night colours instead.<\/p>\n<p>When System Default is selected, WhatsApp will automatically detect which theme is used by your Android operating system and set the same theme within the application.<\/p>\n<p>The Dark Theme option is still under development, and the new colour scheme does not yet have a release date.<\/p>\n<p>Another feature which first appeared in a previous beta version of WhatsApp for Android is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/321846-disappearing-messages-coming-to-whatsapp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Disappearing Messages&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>, which will allow users to send messages that automatically delete themselves after a pre-defined period of time.<\/p>\n<p>WABetaInfo previously stated that Disappearing Messages is not yet available, and may not appear for users even after they update to the latest beta version of WhatsApp on Android.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/322402-good-news-for-vodacom-whatsapp-users.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Good news for Vodacom WhatsApp users<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WhatsApp is developing a dark mode for its Android application, WABetaInfo reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":168223,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,42606,2594],"class_list":["post-322472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-dark-mode","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322472"}],"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\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322492,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322472\/revisions\/322492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}