(Pocket-lint) – The Instagram mobile app has a dark mode, just like many other apps these days.
Dark modes have become very popular in recent years, thanks to their ability to blacken interfaces, thereby reducing any strain on your eyes and simultaneously saving your device’s battery life. As a result, companies like Google and Apple offer system-wide dark modes across their operating systems, and many app developers have updated their apps with support for dark modes over the years.
In this case, we are looking at Instagram’s dark mode option and how to get it.
How to enable dark mode on Instagram’s mobile app
iPhone users
If you already use iOS 13 or later and have dark mode turned on at the system level, the Instagram app will auto-adjust to dark mode.
- Make sure you’re running iOS 13 or later on your iPhone
- Open Settings on your device, then go to Display and Brightness, and tap Dark.
- Install the Instagram app (or update it to the latest version) on your device and open it.
- Instagram will, by default, automatically respond to your device’s system settings.
There’s nothing else you need to do!
Android users
The process is very similar for Android 12 users as the app also reacts to the device’s theme.
- Open your phone’s settings menu, navigate to Display and open it.
- Activate the Dark theme toggle.
- Install the Instagram app (or update it to the latest version) on your device and open it.
- Instagram will, by default, automatically respond to your device’s system settings.
Alternatively, you can activate dark mode from within the Instagram Android app
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- Go to your profile by tapping your profile picture at the bottom right.
- Select the menu icon at the top right.
- Tap Settings and then Theme
- From here you can select Light, Dark or System Default themes.
When will Instagram’s dark mode be available?
Dark mode support rolled out to iOS users in August 2019, so make sure you’re running the latest version of the app and you should have the feature, plus other extra features that Instagram has rolled out since.
Though it took a little longer, dark mode support is also now available on Android devices.
Writing by Maggie Tillman. Editing by Britta O’Boyle.