Facebook prepares second iPhone app

updated 09:25 am EDT, Thu August 21, 2008

Facebook for iPhone 2.0


Facebook is already preparing a major revision of its native iPhone application, a new preview reveals. Version 2.0 of the software will introduce several important features, most notably an improved News Feed, which will go beyond status updates and photo uploads to show all the items people would normally see on the desktop website. Users will additionally be able to comment on all articles, and filter by apps, categories and friend lists.

Notifications will arrive while the app is running, and Facebook says it is already laying the groundwork for Apple's background push technology, which will allow notifications to be received while in different apps. This latter feature will have to wait for a future update, as background push is only due sometime in September.

Profiles have been redesigned to use tabs, and also to combine the normally separate Wall and Mini-Feed sections. It will further be possible to search for people and add them as friends, and view a complete message history, rather than just the most recent 30 listings. No date has been announced for v2.0's release.




by MacNN Staff


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  1. rsande

    Fresh-Faced Recruit

    Joined: May 2004

    +1

    misleading title

    This isn't a "second iPhone app", but a revision of the first one. "Version 2.0" means a new version, not new software. Likely, this was started as an update to 1.0 to make the appearance the same as www.new.facebook.com, which isn't new content, just a new display.

    That said, it'll be nice to have more features without having to load Facebook up in Safari.

  1. longzero

    Fresh-Faced Recruit

    Joined: Jul 2008

    +2

    Yes!

    I am very much looking forward to the new release.

  1. cmoney

    Mac Enthusiast

    Joined: Sep 2000

    +3

    video?

    that first screen has a video with a play button. i wonder if video playback will be in the version 2.

  1. rytc

    Senior User

    Joined: Jan 2001

    0

    video

    Video on Facebook is in flash no? Which would mean that would be hard to do when the iPhone doesn't support flash video and never will.

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