Facebook 3.0 Available Now! Get ready for the New User Interface

Thursday, August 27, 2009

After many news, previews, and reviews on Facebook version 3.0, the actual app finally appeared in the App Store. If you still haven’t downloadeded the most popular iPhone App of All Times, get it here.

When the news for Facebook 3.0’s release first broke at around mid-afternoon today, there were some confusion as the version number at the app store was still at version 2.5. There weren’t any updates available to be updated to version 3.0. Instead some people had to delete the old version on the iPhone, then download the entire app again through the App Store. But now these bugs at the Apps Store seemed fixed. Folks can now update their facebook to version 3.0 without deleting the old version. If you are to install the Facebook 3.0 app after deleting the prior version, the App Store now displays the correct version to be downloaded.

After downloading the new version, iPhone users are treated to a new user interface. Gone are the awkward looking sliding categories on the main News Feed page. Instead, new UI changes include a rotating category button on the top right of the main News Feed page. When the user touch the news feed category button, a large slider appears to allow users to pick their categories.

To use Facebook’s other functions such as Requests, Chat, Inbox, Friends Profile, and Your Profile. They now appear the the facebook app’s new home screen as individual icons. Like the iPhone’s homescreen, users can move these icons around when holding them for a few seconds. There are also multiple pages available to place these icons. Multiple pages are needed as users can now make new icons as shortcuts to their favorite friends. Simply touch the + button at the top left of the facebook home screen and pick your favorite friend to join your home screen. Adding friends can also be done on Friend’s page.

Facebook 3.0 have added many other interesting features as well. For a complete list of this version’s newest changes and additions, click here.