[Tip] Enable New Theme or Restore Old Classic UI in Facebook
The popular social networking website Facebook has launched a brand new theme or design for its website. The new website design is responsive and compatible with mobile phones. It features large fonts which might not please few users. You can press Ctrl and – keys together on your keyboard to decrease text size.
Following screenshot shows Facebook website in new design or theme:
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The new design is not available for all users. Some Facebook users have received the new design and some are waiting for it.
There are some users who got the new design but they didn’t like it and now they want to switch back to old classic UI.
Today in this article, we’ll tell you how to forcefully activate and enable the new design in Facebook and how to restore old classic UI in Facebook.
Let’s start the tutorial:
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1. Enable New Design or Theme UI in Facebook
Following steps will help you in manually activating and applying new theme in Facebook right now:
1. Open Facebook and sign into your account. Now click on the drop-down arrow icon showing at the top-right corner of the website.
2. You’ll see “Switch to New Facebook” option present at the bottom of the menu.
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Click on the option and it’ll apply the new design UI in your Facebook account.
PS: Some users may get a button to join the wait list after clicking on switch to new Facebook option. It means new design has not been activated for your account at Facebook servers. You’ll need to wait until Facebook activates the new design for you.
NOTE: If you can’t see “Switch to New Facebook” option, again it means your Facebook account is pending for new design activation. Wait for some time and the option will be available soon.
2. Restore Old Classic Theme UI in Facebook
If you have received the new design in Facebook but you want to disable the new design and restore classic UI in Facebook, following steps will help you:
1. Open Facebook and sign into your account. Now click on the drop-down arrow icon showing at the top-right corner of the website.
2. You’ll see “Switch to Classic Facebook” option present at the bottom of the menu.
Click on the option and it’ll immediately bring back the previous classic UI in your Facebook account.
BONUS TIP: Activate and Enable Dark Theme Mode in Facebook
The new Facebook design offers the much awaited Dark Mode or Night Mode feature which will please Dark UI lovers.
To apply Dark Mode, click on the drop-down arrow icon showing at the top-right corner of the website and set the toggle button given next to “Dark Mode” option to ON.
To restore Light Theme or Light Mode, set the “Dark Mode” toggle button to OFF.
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One of my friend has turned on the new FB look but can’t come back to the old one, the option to come back to old FB has disappeared from the drop-down menu! My friend has cleared cookies and cache of the browser but nothing more and can’t come back to old FB! He has also tried to disconnect/reconnect, disabled his account and re-enabled it a few minutes later as we saw on a forum but nothing has been fixed! What’s wrong?
I use this Chrome extension – chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/switch-to-classic-design/oancckmjgaoejmbedngcoiakblhacbog
Works perfectly even when there is no switch button and it doesn’t let Facebook to revert it back to the new layout.