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Facebook App Sees Major 2.0 Update

Monday September 29, 2008 9:41 pm PDT by Arnold Kim
Facebook has updated their native iPhone app to version 2.0 today. The long awaited update brings a number of new features to the popular social networking application. New features include:

- Notifications
-The full News Feed
- News Feed story comments
- People search
- Friend requests
- Photo tagging
- Photo captioning
- Photo posts to your friends' Walls
- The full Mini-Feed, now combined with The Wall
- Your entire inbox, plus the sent folder and updates tab
- Inbox search
- Message attachments

Facebook also promises the app will be "much faster and more stable." Facebook is a free application that is available in the App Store: Facebook App.

[via TUAW]
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trickytrav
Posted: 44 months ago
The promised Facebook App Store update is now online, though it doesn't show through auto update yet. To get the update you'll have to delete the previous version and reinstall it from the App Store

Features include an overhauled appearance similar to the tabbed look of the iPhone facebook web app, as well as a swipe feature for update by different types of updates

In addition the have added a shake to refresh feature, similar to the "shake to shuffle" feature of the 4th gen nano, which can be turned off in the Facebook settings in the iPhone settings menu

The icon has also been updated to a white "f" on a blue background, but doesn't show up until installed.

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284882215&mt=8
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iwuzbord
Posted: 44 months ago
you actually dont need to delete the other app first. just go to the facebook app in itunes and download it and it tells you that its updating the previous app
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macbookairman
Posted: 44 months ago
thanks. i've been waiting for this!

(btw, it showed up as an update for me, i didn't have to delete or re-download like you guys said)
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specops
Posted: 44 months ago
Thanks The The Heads Up!!!
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CrzyCanuck72
Posted: 44 months ago
Top notch update. Has almost all the functionality of the website now.
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Chundles
Posted: 44 months ago
Just came through on the iPod touch app store auto update. Nice.
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Watabou
Posted: 44 months ago
Yes. Yes omg Yes.

Thank you finally!!! :D:D:D

First impressions: Awesome interface. I can finally comment on status updates. Very close to the desktop version. But still can't edit your information. Notifications is also there. Omg I love this.
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212rikanmofo
Posted: 44 months ago
finally this new facebook 2.0 is awesome! wow... i am really loving this. Thanks Joe for the amazing update to this long awaited app! :)

Now i really have no reason to use the computer to get on facebook. I can do it all from my iPhone! :):)
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Mobile923
Posted: 44 months ago
yes... now I can upload and tag pics on the go....

now... as for the video playback.. it seems that it only plays back video linked off of youtube? not the native fb videos?
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Niiro13
Posted: 44 months ago
I really believe they should fix Facebook chat as a number one priority...it's the main thing that separates the web app and the application (among many other things too).

I can barely stand facebook chat on the comp and on the phone.
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