In other words, almost all of the content and even the design elements in these apps are actually being delivered from Google and Facebook’s servers, rather than being contained within the app itself.
The problem is that iOS apps like Gmail and Facebook are really just “web wrappers” - apps that basically just present content delivered from their respective websites in an iOS-friendly format. Gmail took several months for Dark Mode to appear, since it was clear that Google was controlling the entire process from the back end, switching it on for a few users at a time, and it appears that Facebook has followed a similar pattern at an even more glacial pace. This made it all the more bewildering when tech giants like Google and Facebook - both of which almost certainly have the engineering resources to accomplish something as relatively simple as giving their apps a new coat of paint - appeared to be dragging their heels. Even Microsoft had its Office apps ready to go, along with a huge collection of other popular iOS apps. A Slow Fade to BlackĪlthough Dark Mode landed on the iPhone and iPad when Apple released iOS 13 over a year ago, it actually gave developers the frameworks to adopt Dark Mode back in June of 2019, and there were plenty of apps that were ready to go dark on the very day of the iOS 13 release in September. As with how Facebook normally rolls out new features, it doesn’t appear to have selected a specific testing group, and so a number of users were surprised this past summer when their Facebook app suddenly went dark, but of course this left pretty much everybody else wondering why Facebook was the only app on their iPhone that still hadn’t embraced its dark side. This earlier testing was seemingly fairly random, however.
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