Going forward, Android users will now have a faster photo tagging inside the app and they have also gained the ability to choose a specific album when uploading their photos. Facebook also fixed a bug that was affected uploads in certain languages.
The latest version has three changes, and all of them aim to improve photo functionality: the app has sped up photo tagging, it enables you to pick an album when uploading photos, and a photo upload bug has been fixed as well. Given that Facebook really likes to focus on photos, especially when it comes to mobile, and that the social media giant insists on keeping Instagram separate, this update makes sense.
But anyways, the app looks as spiffy as ever:
As a matter of fact, today’s update comes less than two months after the last one. This is in line with Facebook’s recent promise to update its mobile apps every four to eight weeks, including Facebook for iOS, Facebook for Android, Facebook Messenger, and Facebook Camera. This was due to a shift from a feature-driven view of mobile app development to a date-driven method.
“Great updates we had already finished sometimes took longer to get into people’s hands because we often had to wait for additions and tweaks that threw us off schedule. As we started developing more and more for mobile, it became clear we needed a scalable process to manage the increased mobile engineering activity and ship quality updates to users fast,” said Facebook.
In order to enjoy the latest update, Facebook for Android is now available for download in version 1.9.11, and, while the latest update is not very special compared with recent ones, it does come with three straightforward and important changes.
Apart from these enhancements and added features, there does not seem to be anything new in Facebook for Android, so do not be surprised if you still hate the app’s guts. Still, the user numbers are up, including on mobile, so it may just be us that think FB needs to get a move on and drastically change things rather than focus on frequent, but minor updates.
More importantly, this latest update comes hot on the heels of news that there are more Facebook users on Android than iOS, but not by much. This means the social media giant will likely continue keeping both platforms running its latest and greatest and would not be favoring one or the other.