That left my Facebook icon with the dark background after the app update. My phone was not in dark mode. The iOS update to 17.6.1 also was available for my phone, which I also installed.

Facebook — -- Facebook has found another way for women to lean in with a subtle redesign of its friends icons, bringing the female silhouette to the forefront.

Facebook has made a subtle change to the "Friends" icon that appears at the top-right of its homepage, bringing the woman in the image in front of the man, The Verge reports.

Caitlin Winner, a design manager at Facebook, wrote a Medium post about how she changed the friends icon to prominently feature a woman and why she did it. Skip to main content.