Los Angeles –– Barely a week after the social networking hub released their hyper fast speed update to the native Facebook app, and now the social media giant Facebook has also given some improvements to the lesser-used Facebook Camera recently with improved support for tags, likes, and comments, and the ability to upload to specific (or new) albums.
Apart from completely recreating its iOS app from scratch, Facebook has rolled out a number of significant new tools and tweaks to improve the social networking experience on iPhones.
To begin with, Facebook Camera, the standalone photo-sharing app, released back in May, shortly after Facebook acquired the hugely popular camera app Instagram for over $1 billion and echoed much of Instagram’s functionality, but with a decidedly Facebook twist.
In order to help you manage your photos better, Facebook Camera allows you to view a feed containing nothing but photos from your Facebook friends. It also empowers you to post multiple photos at once, complete with tags, captions, and even Instagram-like filters.
More so, you can also add likes and comments on posts that feature more than just one photo, as well as “like” any individual comments. For photos that have long captions, you can now scroll through it when looking at a photo in full screen. Names and profile pictures for everyone who liked a photo can also be viewed now.
“We want people to tell stories in littler clumps,” Scott Raymond, an engineer for Facebook Camera, reported as saying by Wired. “It is more natural and it is more suited for mobile. But Albums has been part of the Facebook Photos product for years and users love them and there is plenty of valid use cases for it. The Album [support] illustrates that we are constantly listening to user feedback.”
The most recent update to the app, apart from providing better language support and the obligatory bug fixes, Facebook Camera is still missing much of a “why”, but at least the edges have now been polished.
“The lessons that we learned here are in the Facebook app now,” Raymond added. “That is another interesting thing about this kind of approach we have of multiple mobile apps. We are constantly learning from one another and figuring out what works and moving it from platform to platform.”
Well, if you share most of your photos through Facebook, you can grab it here.