When did Phone Call Theme Change from Blue to White?

[PowrDroid]

Took a phone call just now and the background theme color of the phone screen is solid white. It used to be a medium blue in color. When did this change? Can I get the blue theme back? The white is awfully bright and hard to look at.

 

[Almeuit]

Mine is still blue. Did your phone app get an update recently?

 

[PowrDroid]

Mine is still blue. Did your phone app get an update recently?

Most recent: Android version 9, August 5, 2018.

Phone was blue themed up through yesterday.

 

[Almeuit]

Hm weird... I tested just now and mine is still blue.

Most recent: Android version 9, August 5, 2018.

Phone was blue themed up through yesterday.

 

[johnnnnnymtl]

Mine has turned white too and I'm happy with that I found the blue kind of horrible looking

 

[kpo6969]

Mine is white, got the phone update yesterday.

 

[PowrDroid]

Oh, hang on... When making/receiving a phone call if I tilt the phone a bit the screen turns blue! Yes!

Oh wait, some people think that's a Pixel 2 XL flaw...

 

[anon(10092459)]

Mine is white now, as well. I think it's part of the Material Design update. Contacts app converted at the time, I noticed.

 

[Theot]

Yeah there was an update to both my phone and contacts apps yesterday that changed it to white. Kind of like the change. The blue was getting a little stale.

 

[GSDer]

When did this change? Can I get the blue theme back?

When you got the update to 23.0.somereallylonguselessnumber
If you have a backup of the old version you can install that, or I guess you could roll back to the original factory version and then not update it.

 

[Mike Dee]

Mine is also white. I think it happened yesterday or day before

 

[EricandSuebee]

Just got the update and it's white now and if you look at the details on play store, says dark mode is coming soon, so I figured they are updating all the new UI's to white to easily convert to dark mode

 

[Almeuit]

I just got the update. They say a dark mode is coming.

 

[Hebekiah]

I'm happy with the Contacts App update because before when I tapped a contact it would immediately start dialing them most of the time. That was frustrating. (moto x4)

 

[Azpixel]

That happened to me about two weeks ago, and then tonight, my SMS messages changed from primary colors to pastel colors and I can not customize any contact SMS colors. Any idea how to get back to the primary colors?

 

[SactoKingsFan]

I'm fine with the updated phone app as long as we get the dark mode soon. The messages app has dark mode again after recent update and looks pretty good.

 

[TraderGary]

Dark mode looks quite nice.

 

[TraderGary]

Oops! That wasn't the phone app, that was the Messenger app.
It's after midnight here on the East Coast.
I'm tired.
Yes, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 

[popkurn611]

Seems like it is rolling out to the messages app. I just got it and it is awesome to say the least!

But now I can't change the bubble colors :-(

Oops! That wasn't the phone app, that was the Messenger app.
It's after midnight here on the East Coast.
I'm tired.
Yes, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Ten8yp]

I wish mine was blue OR white... Note 9 is stuck with this godawful brown color. Been trying to figure out how to fix it for months.