Facebook's weird black icon glitch on iOS is now fixed

If you’ve been scratching your head over the Facebook icon’s suddenly goth makeover, you can breathe easy now. The social media giant has resolved the mysterious black icon glitch that had users wondering if they’d accidentally stumbled into some alternate, edgy universe.

For the past few days, Facebook users – particularly those running iOS 18 beta, 17.6.1, or 17.5.x – found themselves staring at a black Facebook icon instead of the familiar blue. Also, before everyone rushes to the comments, I want to point out that users were NOT in dark mode, nor were they using dark themed icons on iOS 18.

The glitch sparked a flurry of activity on social media platforms (ironically, including Facebook itself), with users sharing screenshots and theories about the cause. Some wondered if it was an intentional design change, while others suspected it might be related to dark mode settings. A few optimistic souls even hoped it might be teasing some cool new feature.

But fear not, blue is back in style. Facebook has quietly pushed out an update that seems to have fixed the issue for most users. As one Reddit user, megaredz, helpfully pointed out: “For those of you who have that appearance of Facebook logo, update your Facebook app from App Store. I did this and it fixed the issue.”

While Facebook hasn’t officially commented on the cause of the glitch, it’s likely it was just that – a glitch. These things happen, even to tech giants. It’s a reminder that in the world of software, sometimes things go a little dark (pun intended) before they’re brought back to light.

For those still seeing the black icon, the solution seems simple: head to your app store and update Facebook to the latest version. If that doesn’t work, you might try this user-suggested solution: “If you’re on 18 beta, long press in a blank space on the home screen and go to edit, and set to light.”

I installed the latest Facebook app on my iPhone 13 with the latest iOS 18 beta and could not replicate the bug. So, it’s likely that the latest update indeed works its magic to fix the black icon glitch. Feel free to let us know if you managed to fix the glitch by installing the update, or if that didn’t help either.