Ondrej Holzman Facebook continues its mobile campaign and after the show Facebook Home has also released a new update for its iPhone and iPad apps. The main novelty in version 6.0 are Chat Heads for easier communication…
Facebook 6.0 for iOS comes less than two weeks after Facebook showed off its new interface for Android devices called Home, and it was from that mobile client for Apple devices that it took some elements.
The most noticeable change you will come across when you launch the updated version of Facebook is the Chat Heads for chatting with your friends. Unlike Facebook Home, they won't work anywhere else, but at least we can test how they roughly work in practice. These are bubbles with your friends' profile pictures that you place anywhere on your screen and then have instant access to them no matter what you're doing in the app. Clicking on a cluster of bubbles will display active conversations in a row at the top of the screen on the iPhone, and vertically along the right edge on the iPad.
Directly from Chat Heads, which now replace the original conversation format, you can go to your friends' profile, turn on/off notifications for a given contact, and also look at the history of shared images.
By adding Chat Heads to iOS applications, Facebook mainly wants to show what Facebook Home is actually like and what it can do, rather than bringing any significant improvements in communication for iOS users. Access to conversations on iPhone and iPad was already very easy and fast, now everything works in a slightly different way. However, we can still open new conversations from the top panel or when swiping from right to left by selecting a contact from the friends list.
In conversations, we will find one more new feature in Facebook 6.0 – Stickers. In Facebook, the classic and available smileys were obviously not enough for someone, so in the new version we come across giant emoji-style images that can be sent with a single click. The new emoticons (which can currently only be sent from an iPhone, but received on any device) are really large and will appear over almost the entire conversation window. Facebook adds the crown to everything by saying that users will have to pay extra for some additional emoticons. I really don't think this is something that should take mobile communication a step further.
Facebook also took care to improve the graphical interface. Posts are now much more pleasant to read on the iPad. Individual entries are not stretched across the entire screen, but neatly aligned next to the avatars, which are on the left and stand out more. Also, images are no longer cropped on the iPad, so you can see them in all their glory without having to open them up. Facebook also did a good job with the typography, changing and increasing the font so that everything is easier to read, especially on the iPad. And finally, sharing has also been improved - on the one hand, you can choose how you want to share the post, and if you do share it, more information and text is now displayed in the preview than before.
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Chat Heads -> iOS 8 : 2014!
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I was wondering who would say it first. You are winning the teenager of the Internet!
how to turn on chat heads? I have a new version, but I can't find it anywhere, and the updates are old
Just update FB again, it didn't work for me either, and then I looked at the App Store and it offered me another update, after which it works for me :)
My friend, I've probably done everything and it just doesn't work... Do you have any other advice please?
And if he could at least have a broad conversation :-(