Facebook is making Instant Articles compatible with Apple News and Google AMP formats
Facebook has released new tools to help publishers make their Instant Articles compatible with Apple News and Google AMP formats.
Facebook rolls out revamped Trending results page
Facebook’s redesigned Trending page makes it easier to discover other publications that are covering the story and see what your friends are saying about it.
Facebook signs video deals with Electronic Sports League and Major League Baseball
The latest deals signal a video strategy shift for Facebook.
Instagram exploring adding offline mode to iPhone app
Instagram for Android has gained an offline mode at Facebook’s F8 developer conference yesterday. The company is “exploring” adding the feature to Instagram for iPhone.
Messenger launches turn-by-turn games, M assistant gains food ordering
With over 1.5 billion games played in just the last 90 days, small wonder Facebook is doubling down on gaming with game bots and turn-by-turn games on Messenger.
Discovery in physical world with Messenger’s new parametric QR codes
With the newly introduced parametric QR codes, Messenger users who are out and about at events can simply scan the code to find out more from a bot for Messenger.
Facebook Messenger gaining curated Discover tab
In addition to a bunch of new bots and integrations, including Spotify and Apple Music, Facebook’s Messenger app is introducing a new curated tab to help you find bots you love and other popular content.
Facebook confirms Apple Music integration coming soon to Messenger
Facebook’s been working hard to turn Messenger into a platform for everything you do in your life. Soon, you’ll be able to share your favorite Apple Music songs into your chats.
How to disable comments on your Instagram posts
If you have problems with trolls leaving nasty comments on your Instagram posts, then it might be music to your ears to hear that you can disable commenting, a step that can prevent trolls from leaving hurtful comments on your posts while allowing you to maintain a presence on the popular media-sharing social network.
While the workaround certainly isn’t perfect, it can be effective if used correctly. We’ll show you how to disable comments on your Instagram posts in this tutorial.
Facebook unveils group payments via Messenger for desktop
Facebook announced this morning that sending or receiving money between groups of people is now supported on the Messenger service. The social networking company debuted peer-to-peer payments on Messenger in March 2015. The new group payments feature, currently limited to users in the United States, is available starting today on Messenger for Android and via the company’s desktop app at messenger.com. Group mobile payments will be coming to Messenger for iPhone and iPad at a later stage.
NoMoreStories removes the Stories feature from the Facebook app
Facebook has made a lot of unwanted changes to the mobile app in the last few weeks; unfortunately, because they refuse to list anything new in the App Store change logs, everyone who uses Facebook gets duped into installing the changes whether they want them or not.
One of the latest unpopular additions to the Facebook app is the Snapchat-like Stories feature, which appears at the top. If you don’t like Facebook’s new Stories feature, you can use a new free jailbreak tweak called NoMoreStories by iKilledAppl3 to get rid of it once and for all.
Facebook Messenger not loading on your Apple Watch? Try this…
Facebook Messenger users who try to set the app up on a new Apple Watch might find themselves plagued with problems loading the app. Similar problems affect Apple Watch users that aren’t new, but rather have un-paired and reconfigured the device after troubleshooting problems with it.
There appears to be a significant bug in the Facebook Messenger app, and while the direct cause of the issue is unknown, there’s a quick fix for getting your Facebook Messenger conversations to load properly on your Apple Watch, and we’ll show you how it’s done it in this tutorial.