Facebook has recently announced a new feature called ‘Nearby Friends’. The Facebook Nearby Friends feature is available on both the iOS and Android Facebook apps. Nearby Friends is an opt-in feature and is currently being rolled out to all the users. Jul 4, 2018 - Facebook has updated their mobile App recently and included the facility to find out the nearby friends using the location history of the. Nearby Friends is a Facebook feature that will inform you about your friend's location when they are nearby. Location History must be turned on for some location features, like Nearby Friends, to work on Facebook. To turn Nearby Friends on or off using the Facebook app for iOS devices: Turn on Location Services and set location access to Always. Apr 17, 2014 - Nearby Friends was built by the Glancee location sharing app team led by Andrea Vaccari that Facebook acquired in 2012. It adds a list of. TechCrunch in a report on Saturday said that it had noticed the map being removed from the 'Nearby Friends' service on Facebook app's 'More' tab. Facebook has removed the 'Nearby Friends' feature.
Facebook’s Nearby Friends List has had the Exact Location sharing feature since its introduction in 2014. Facebook has now decided to remove the feature and replace it by sharing the neighbourhood location and a contact’s distance away in a move to prioritise privacy and approachability.
How to turn on Nearby Friends and Nearby Places on Facebook for Android. To enable this feature on your Facebook app. Facebook’s Nearby Friends and Nearby Places are valuable features.
The company has decided to add a new feature called “Wave” which will send out a casual invitation to nearby contacts to meet up in person via a friendly emoji. This feature will be added very soon as confirmed by Facebook.
Confirming the “Wave” feature a Facebook spokesperson said, “We are testing a new feature within Nearby Friends allowing people to send their friends a waving hand emoji to say hello and help them meet up. This is meant to give people more ways to express themselves, and help friends interact with one another in new fun and lightweight ways.”
We have also noted that the integrated map had disappeared from the Nearby Friends list from the “More” tab on the Facebook app. However the option has been notice on the desktop version of Facebook. The Integrated Map feature is intended to replace Facebook’s long time “poke” functionality due to its improved accessibility and more features.
Facebook announced that the iPhone/Android app will have a new feature. Called “Nearby Friends”, the feature aims to let you know when your Facebook friends are nearby your location. The feature, in itself, is not new to the smartphone ecosystem.
“Nearby Friends” works when you and your friends have the feature enabled. When you tap on Nearby friends, it shows a list of people (your friends on Facebook, obviously) who are close by. The interface tells you how far they are and time elapsed between the latest location tag.
How to Turn On/Off Facebook Nearby Friends Features on iPhone
Now, I don’t know if Nearby Friends is switched ON by default in the Facebook app but the debates about location-tracking, privacy and all the assorted things about personal preferences are on. Needless to say, you can turn off the feature if you don’t want others to know where you have been or if you prefer not to receive notifications about friends who are nearby.
Step #1. Open the Facebook app.
Step #2. Tap on More from the menu (bottom).
Step #3. Tap on Nearby Friends.
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Step #4. Now, tap on the cog icon (settings).
Step #5. Turn off the toggle for Nearby Friends.
This turns off the feature, effectively preventing anyone (including Facebook) from tracking your location.
Nearby Friends, when turned on, will also allow Facebook to keep a record of the locations you’ve been to in the past with a feature called Location History.
Creepy as it sounds to some of us, Apple has this feature in the Frequent Locations toggle hidden inside Privacy preferences. If you want to keep Nearby Friends ON but have the location tracking/recording turned off:
Step #1. Open the Facebook app.
Step #2. Tap on More, then on Nearby Friends.
Step #3. Tap on the settings icon (cog).
Step #4. Tap on Location Settings.
Step #5. Turn OFF Location History.
Nearby Friends has an interesting time-sensitive location-share option where you can share your location for a particular time-frame, with a particular friend.
This is very useful for a use case where you and your friend decide to meet up somewhere at some appointed time. At the time of a meeting, you don’t have to call each other to find out where the other person is: Nearby Friends will tell you exactly where your friend is.
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