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The dark mode makes great sense on mobiles with an OLED screen. Those in which the pixels can be completely turned off while still displaying information with others that remain on. Something that saves much more battery than lowering the brightness of the screen, where all the pixels are still on. The question is that users have become more and more accustomed to having this mode for everything. And not just for energy efficiency, but also to avoid being dazzled or damaging your vision.And in WhatsApp it seems that they have not been happy with taking it only to their mobile applications. Now we know that it will also soon land on WhatsApp Web and its application for computers.
As always, it is WABetaInfo who is sounding the alarm about this new WhatsApp feature. It is the Twitter account that studies each of the company's movements, reverse-engineering any change in the code of its applications. Well, thanks to the notice of one of his followers, they have been able to notice the work of WhatsApp in dark mode for its web service and for its desktop application. Of course, it is still work that is still in progress, and although images have been leaked, it is likely that the final result will vary slightly.
Anyway, it helps us to know what the final look will be when the dark mode is available to all users.From WABetaInfo they predict that WhatsApp could be working on this feature to launch it together with the final version on Android and iPhone shortly, which are already very advanced. However, as it is a work for which nothing has been officially shown, and for which no official release date has been given, anything can happen.
At the moment, and according to the leaked images, it can be seen that the development of the dark mode is very advanced. We can see not only how the application for Mac OS looks in general, but also its screens for settings, or even the chat screen, with the information of the conversation displayed . There are also screenshots showing the menu for GIFs, emoticons and stickers, where you can see how the work done so far to adapt the dark mode. A job that is not finished.
As you can see, the color black is not present in any of the designs Instead, different shades have been chosen of greys, as also happens in the mobile versions of these dark modes. Of course, green is also in sight, although only in the details. Tones that play with different intensities to differentiate menus, screens and buttons. Something that will not cause a great change in the management of the battery of our computers, but in the experience of use on a day-to-day basis.
How to activate dark mode in WhatsApp Web
Despite the fact that the WhatsApp team continues to work on its official version of dark mode, some developers have already created solutions for those who cannot or want to wait any longer. That is why there are tricks and add-ons that allow you to change the background whites. The easiest is to use a browser extension Google Chrome with which to do all this in a couple of steps.So you can apply the dark mode to WhatsApp Web, but not to the application for computers.
All you have to do is go to the Google Chrome extensions store, and search for Stylus. Click on the obtain button to install it in your Internet browser.
The next step is to download the dark mode for WhatsApp Web with this tool Click on this link to do it through Stylus and be able to activate it. With this you will already have WhatsApp Web in Google Chrome working in dark mode, although it will not be the official one.
