Some users are X A small but important change to the application settings was noticed this week. According to multiple posts, the “Night Mode” option has disappeared from the app settings in the latest update and is no longer directly adjustable within the platform.
Night mode was originally launched by Twitter in 2016. The feature, commonly known as dark mode in many other apps, allows users to switch the interface to a darker theme. It’s designed to help reduce exposure to blue light when using the app, and many people also like the dark look it gives the platform.
Why X removed night mode option
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, explained the change. He explained in a March 5 X post that the platform has updated the app so that it now respects the display settings of the user’s device, rather than providing separate controls within the app.
This means that if someone turns on dark mode in the phone’s system settings, the X app will automatically switch to dark or night mode as well. However, users can no longer control this functionality directly from within the X application.
“Turn on dark mode on your device and your X app will go into dark mode,” Bill wrote
“It is now controlled at the OS level, not the application level (which makes no sense and creates problems across the entire application),” he added in the post.
Bill also explained that several other popular social media platforms such as TikTok and Youtube Already follows the same system by synchronizing with the device’s display settings rather than providing its own controls.
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How users react to the changes
The update prompted mixed reactions from users of the platform. Some people said they were unhappy about losing the option to control Night Mode directly within the app.
“This is an extremely stupid update, Twitter is a text based app and they will switch it back anyway,” one user wrote.
Another user commented: “Not a great design decision.”
To which Bill responded: “This same design decision is used on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and the rest of the world.”
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Some users also asked the platform to restore the feature. One comment read: “Some people don’t want dark mode for everything. In my opinion, it’s a per-application/task preference.”
However, the latest update means that dark or night mode on the X will now depend on the user’s device settings, rather than the controls of the app itself. This change removes a separate option that was already on the platform.
