✅ Dark mode for the app?

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Need I say more? Every major app (apart from Snapchat -_-) has dark mode, please bring it to Monzo! So much easier on the eyes and saves battery. Doesn’t exactly take much to bring it, especially for iOS, all you need is to add a secondary colour option for white and dark.

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Hi, welcome to the forum.
Totally agree with you, I think it’s coming some point soon too.
There’s an existing thread about this with 400+ votes, so be sure to add your vote to that.

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This really isn’t true. It takes a lot of work to do it properly.

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It also means that development resource is diverted from doing things that will improve financial related features. Plenty of more important things to be working on than changing the colours in the app.

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Does IOS not have some system for CSS or theming that can be created? I don’t do app development so I honestly don’t know but I know that creating a new theme with CSS is minimal work for small sites if they’re build with some form of convention or standards

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They could use Microsoft Paint and it wouldn’t take long at all.

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It’s called user experience. Just as important as functionally

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If they’ve used colour assets in their library then for iOS devices it is literally just as simple as setting the colours that you want dark mode enabled on as ‘Color.primary’ and that will switch between light and dark dependent on the system setting.

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Exactly !

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Wouldn’t the standard theme be an option for those with visual impairments though? Although I suspect there are people with visual impairments that might already struggle with Monzo’s current theme yet I don’t think they’ve been sued, unless we’re saying Monzo’s current theme works for everyone and is some how perfect?

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The app theme choices will be ‘Dark’, ‘Light’ and ‘Use device settings’ - and then a sub-set of choice-of-dark will be ‘Lights out’ (black) and ‘Midnight Sky’ (dark) - it can’t be far off at this point :crossed_fingers:

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Really Dark Mode 🌚 - Feature Request
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Anyway… All votes and discussion needs to happen in the below main topic - no point diluting it all here where it’s likely to go unnoticed.

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I believe they have been testing dark mode for a few months now. So hopefully it will be rolling out next year in the first few months :blush:

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Whistle, pause, whistle, “Easy now, eeeaaassy”… :wink:

roundup2

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technically not true for all iPhones

also not true

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I guess there are a number of possible reasons Monzo haven’t released an app with dark mode.

  1. It’s not possible - unlikely.
  2. It’s incredibly difficult - maybe.
  3. It’s fairly straightforward, but they haven’t time - could be.
  4. It’s really easy, but they don’t want to - unlikely.

Take your pick.

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Can I add my own?

  1. It’s not that difficult to do, more difficult to do properly, and with less staff, it got bumped down a priority list
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  1. There’s a spider on the developers desk so the build is currently on hold.
  2. Bingo the dog ate their work.
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Dark Mode Strings are still in the latest version of the :android: app:

<string name="app_theme_dark_theme_title">Dark theme</string>
<string name="app_theme_subtitle_battery">Set dark mode to follow the Battery Saver feature located in your device settings</string>
<string name="app_theme_subtitle_system">Set dark mode to follow the light or dark theme setting located in your device settings</string>

<string name="app_theme_title_dark">Dark</string>
<string name="app_theme_title_light">Light</string>
<string name="app_theme_title_system">Use device settings</string>

<string name="dark_theme_name_black">Lights Out</string>
<string name="dark_theme_name_dark">Midnight Sky</string>

<string name="settings_theme_title">Theme</string>

So not just a Dark Mode, but 2 modes - one darker than the other. And selectable device setting and/or battery saver mode too. Not sure if extra/updated code is needed to enable it or if it is already done and it’s just a server-side switch :on:, but ‘Theme’ will turn up in Settings* at some point :soon:

*I don’t think it’ll land in Labs first, given that last string

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I think its more of a case of lets not actively pursue it but once you come to make changes to a screen then add it the changes to allow it to be switched on.

Easier to justify that way that adding a purely superficial update when other things which are way more important can be done

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