Since WhatsApp became part of Facebook, updates to the application generally they have been conspicuous by their absence. It is increasingly common to find terminals on the market with OLED screens, screens that allow us to save battery in compatible applications, since they only use LEDs that show colors other than black, as long as this is the background color.
Although the dark mode has officially arrived from the hand of Android 10, both Huawei and Samsung already offered it for a long time, but it seems that these manufacturers are the ones that sell the most terminals in the market it was not reason enough as for WhatsApp to introduce once and for all the dark mode, dark mode that is already available in the latest beta and is disappointing.
The first signs of dark mode in WhatsApp were found in 2018, but nothing more has been known since. It is striking that second most popular non-Google Android app, it took so long to implement this mode, a mode that is disappointing because does not allow you to take advantage of OLED screens.
WhatsApp's dark mode does not use black as the background color, instead it adopts a dark gray color so it only affects the aesthetics of the application without affecting battery consumption, one of the reasons why many users were waiting for the dark mode in WhatsApp.
Of course, if you use the smartphone in the dark, regardless of whether your terminal has an OLED screen or not, you will surely appreciate this mode since you will not have to reduce the brightness to the maximum so as not to leave your eyes.
How to activate dark mode on WhatsApp
This dark mode can be activated manually or depending on the system interface. If our terminal allows us to program the dark mode to activate at a certain time, at that very moment, WhatsApp will replace the traditional white background with dark gray.
If you want to be one of the first in try WhatsApp dark mode you have two options. Sign up for the beta program, or download directly the APK is version 2.20.13 that already includes this function. Once you have downloaded it, you just have to install it on the current version, the chats you have will not be deleted.
At the head of the video I leave you a step-by-step video tutorial in which my colleague Francisco Ruiz explains this to you, how to enable the new dark mode in the official WhatsApp application just by downloading the latest official beta.
Download the latest beta of official WhatsApp with the new dark mode enabled by clicking here
