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Alexa Voice
General
1 min read

Amazon brings Dark and Light modes to Alexa app on iOS devices

An important update is now rolling out to Alexa app users on iOS devices. The update adds support for both Light and Dark modes, allowing users to switch between them on the fly, as well as Dynamic Type support. The update is meant to further improve Alexa’s…

Facebook
General
2 min read

Facebook testing Dark mode for iOS

What do you do when your social-media site is under attack because of your policies that allow offensive posts and posts filled with hatred to ferment until they blow up? Why you start pushing out Dark mode for the mobile version of your site. Of course, we…

Google Search
General
2 min read

Google Search gets dark mode settings toggle for iOS and Android

A tweet from the Google SearchLiaison reveals that starting today and for the remainder of the week, Google will be disseminating an update for the Google Search app for Android 10, iOS 12, and iOS 13. By default, the app will follow the system-wide setting…

Facebook Movie Reminder
General
1 min read

Facebook dark theme rolling out to more Android users

Facebook has been trying to implement the long-awaited dark theme into its Android app for many months, which isn’t something unusual. We’ve been hearing reports about the company’s struggles to finalize the feature, but it looks like Facebook’s endeavor…

apple music
Living
1 min read

Apple Music massive update adds dark mode

Apple Music beta experimented with a couple of new features that were made available to testers not long ago. Starting today, all those features added to the beta app are available to everyone who uses the Apple Music app on their Android phones. First and…

Apple News
Electronics
1 min read

Apple’s new Reminders app dark theme leaks out

Google slowly introduced us to the systemwide dark mode in Android Q by painting its own apps in morbid colors on a piecemeal basis. It brushed over the Phone app, Contacts, Calendar, Keep notes, you name it. Apple, however, will be going all out with the iOS…

The Galaxy S10 series set new pre order records in the US UK for Samsung
Electronics
1 min read

Samsung Galaxy S10 update adds Night mode improvements

Samsung continues to improve the Galaxy S10 family with important new features and additional functionality. The upcoming update focuses on camera enhancements by adding a couple of nifty new features, as well as improvements to the phones’ performance when…

Google Dark Mode
General
2 min read

Google adds Dark mode to an Android Apps

If your eyes feel strained at the end of every day, it could be because of Google’s Material Design, which it is using on many of its core apps. Because Material Design uses plenty of bright white background, it can be blinding to look at at night or in a…

facebook messenger
General
1 min read

Facebook Messenger dark mode now Available

Facebook has been widely testing Messenger’s dark mode for about a month now, and while the feature might have been available for everyone, you couldn’t enable it from the settings menu. The only way to enable dark mode in Messenger was to send a crescent…

Whatsapp
Real Estate
2 min read

WhatsApp closer to protecting the retinas of Androids

There are two words that when seen in print by a smartphone user, will instantly get him or her to react by installing a particular app, or checking to see if an update has been received for an app already installed. Those two words are Dark Mode. This is a…