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Facebook‘s version 5.1 iOS mobile app includes multiple new features, such as Gift giving, as well as one they seemingly forgot to mention: photo filters. This, of course, comes a few days after sources stated that Twitter is planning on adding photo filters to its own mobile app in competition of Instagram, which Facebook owns. The photo filters addition wasn’t mentioned in the app’s “What’s New” details.

Facebook launched the app “Facebook Camera” earlier this year, a dedicated app for taking and filtering photos, then uploading them to the social network. Now the functionality of this standalone app has been merged with the main iOS app. Users can apply one of several different filters to images, including Neon, B + W, Highlight, and Boost.

In addition to merging the photo filters into version 5.1 for iOS, Facebook has also added a multi-photo upload feature. By combining these two features, individuals who use Instagram to upload to Facebook might find that they no longer need the former in favor of using the new integrated features. Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year for $715 million.

In addition to the photo features, version 5.1 for iOS also brings with it the ability to buy Gifts, something previously only available to Android and online users. Also added is the easy ability to see what friends are chat by swiping left. Friends you chat with most often are located at the top of the list, and in case that’s not enough, there’s also a Favorites option.

[via Tech Crunch]

Facebook adds photo filters to iOS 5.1 app is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Facebook has updated its iOS app which now have a few new features. The most important to me is the ability to send Facebook messages to your favorite contacts faster. By swiping to the left from any screen in the app, you will reveal a Contacts page where people that you message the most to are at the top (note: the swipe works best when swiping the top navigation area in blue). Previously, you needed to search for the contact, then click on the Message button, and that was a lot more friction than I would care for,

Secondly, the photo-sharing part of the Facebook app has been updated, and it now looks like the Facebook Camera app, which allows you to easily select multiple files at once for upload. This is a welcome addition as photo sharing is clearly a big chunk of the activity on Facebook.

Finally, Facebook is adding the Facebook Gifts to the app for the first time. While I was writing this, the app has showed up in the app store.

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It’s not folding all of its apps back into one, but Facebook has now rolled out an updated version of its main iOS app that incorporates some features first seen in its standalone apps. That includes the ability to swipe left anywhere in the app to see who’s available to send a message to, as well as the ability to add the friends you message the most to the top of your favorites — both features drawn from Messenger. You’ll also get the new “upload flow” from Facebook’s Camera app that promises to let you share multiple photos faster, and the ability to send Facebook Gifts directly from the app (although that remains a US-only feature).

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Facebook is a great way to keep up with the rest of the world. In fact, I get the best news and updates on Facebook next to my favorite RSS reader. I’d even go as far as to suggest that you “like” our Ubergizmo Facebook page to keep up with the latest gadget and technology news. But I admit that the mixture of status updates from my friends and the news feeds from the pages that I’ve liked are sometimes obnoxious. But that might change soon. According to Inside Facebook, the social networking service is beginning to test a new “Pages Feed” feature that will display all the updates from the pages that a user has liked in a single stream.

A few users who took part in the tests said that they were able to access the new Pages Feed feature through a link found in the bookmarks sidebar, which is located on the left corner, but added that they were still able to view page posts on the main thread. One user even found out that the Pages Feed can be accessed directly through this link. So far, Facebook has yet to confirm the reports. “We’re always testing new features, but have nothing further to share right now,” Facebook said in a statement.

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Facebook is a crowded place any more, with statuses from what is often hundreds of friends and pages vying for the limited space within your daily news feed. Because there is more info than can be reasonably displayed, users often miss out on certain statuses and updates. To help de-clutter things a bit, Facebook is testing out a new Pages Feed, which is a news stream of status updates from pages you’ve liked.

Reportedly, some Facebook users are seeing a Page Feed, which aggregates posts from pages they have liked in a single place. If you have this feature on your Facebook, it’ll be located in the left-side menu in the “Pages” category. This seems to be a move on Facebook’s part to appease growing complaints from both page owners and users over the posts that never make it into the standard news feed.

Facebook has already enabled a feature that allows users to select specific friends whose status updates they want to see. When one of those friends make a post, a notification will be given, helping users to keep track of things and ensure they see what they’re most interested in. Soon, this same feature will be available for pages, providing users with notifications whenever a starred page posts an update.

Don’t see the link in your side menu? You can view posts from pages directly in the meantime here. According to Facebook Insider, those with the feature in their Facebook sidebar still see page statuses in their main news feed. This means that while you’ll still see a smattering of select statuses from various pages when browsing Facebook, you have the added ability to open a separate stream and see all the posts you’ll otherwise miss.

[via Inside Facebook]

Facebook testing Pages Feed that aggregates page statuses is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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