Messenger Kids Gains Dark Mode Support, New Voice Effects

Meta aka Facebook has updated its Messenger Kids app with a handful of new features. Well-nigh notably, the kid-focused messaging app is getting dark mode support. Yes, the company took quite a while to add the feature but it's finally hither.

Facebook says people were "over the moon" when it introduced dark way to the full-fledged Messenger app back in March 2019. While that should have prompted the company to rapidly expand support to its other apps too, it somehow took the social network giant more than two years to extend this generosity to Messenger Kids. The feature is still limited to iOS and not available on Android though. Facebook says information technology's coming to Android but doesn't provide a timeframe.

Anyways, Messenger Kids users will be able to turn on dark way from the in-app settings. Yous can keep dark fashion e'er on, e'er off, or fix it to follow your device'south systemwide settings.

Additionally, Messenger Kids is soon getting a bunch of voice effects that you can utilize to voice messages. At that place are five different effects to cull from: robot, ghost, gorilla or mouse, or sound similar yous're talking into a seashell. You can use these effects after you take recorded a voice clip from within the app past tapping the microphone icon. Facebook says you tin try out all the vocalism effects before sending the message away. This feature volition roll out to users in the coming weeks but, unfortunately, the Android version of the app will be missing out initially.

Messenger Kids now lets y'all rapidly showtime games while chatting

Messenger Kids is an app for young users who dear to have fun in every situation. So Facebook is letting them bask messaging with some fun games that can be played while having a conversation. At that place are both single-actor games such as Grow Your Pet as well as ii-player games similar chess, tic-tac-toe, and Daily Doodle. However, two-player games require you to get out the conversation thread and go to the Explore tab.

Thankfully, Facebook is now making it all easier. The visitor will not permit users start two-player games from within the chat threads. A new, orange "Play" tab in the bottom right corner of the chat screen will let you select a game to play. As yous might look, Facebook is limiting this feature to iOS devices at launch. The company doesn't tell when the Messenger Kids Android app will receive information technology. Hopefully, sooner than later on.