Facebook has pushed a major update to its main iOS app

IOS-version of Facebook 5.1 App is now available in the online store Apple App Store. To update is to improve the experience for users to interact with mobile service Facebook, which can positively impact on their monetization.

The world's largest social network Facebook updated version of its mobile application platform iOS, adding a number of features of the service Facebook Camera and Facebook Messenger, as well as a functional service delivery of real gifts Facebook Gifts, said in a social network.

IOS-version of Facebook 5.1 application allows a mobile device to display from right to left to see the list of online friends - such a function already existed in a separate application Facebook Messenger. Of the same service to the main iOS-app Facebook has passed the opportunity to make friends with whom the user is rewritten frequently, the list of "Favorites."


Ability to select and publish several new pictures iOS-app Facebook took over the service from Facebook Camera. According to the publication Wired Facebook spokesman Scott Raymond, the practice of exchange functions between the mobile application is actively spreading in Facebook.

Another of the features of the new iOS-social network applications is the ability to send real gifts to friends through the service Facebook Gifts - true functionality is currently available only American users.

Facebook began testing service Gifts in the U.S. in September of this year. The user can send a gift - a stuffed toy room flower, gift certificate, etc. - directly from the reminder of the friend's birthday or with the Facebook-page. Launch of the service has been well received by investors - Facebook will receive a commission on each transaction Gifts and thus, the service becomes a new source of income for social networks.

IOS-version of Facebook 5.1 App is now available in the online store Apple App Store. To update is to improve the experience for users to interact with mobile service Facebook, which can positively impact on their monetization. Until recently, mobile applications social network users has repeatedly drawn criticism for poor performance and a large number of defects. In this case, the mobile social network audience of more than 600 million users per month.

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