14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook this week released an update to allow iPhone users to choose whose posts they receive in their News Feed. As it turns out, the feature doesn’t work as expected.
Customers who downloaded and installed Facebook 6.9 yesterday were promised a delightful experience via two new features: the ability to choose whose posts they see in their News Feeds, and an album for all the videos they’ve ever uploaded to the social network.
Apparently none of these features work for many users.
“...can we please just default to newest stories first?” writes one upset customer in the reviews section on iTunes. “My newest feed is all jumbled up now going from last Thursday to 30 minutes ago to yesterday... ridiculous,” says this person, identified as “seashoregirl.”
“Where is the video album?” asks another (Ndyan77). User kjm1997 chimes in to say, “Sorting my news feed by most recent no longer works. Things are mixed up. I hope to find an older version backed up on my computer when I get home,” writes kjm1997.
Hopefully, that won’t be necessary, as the social network today introduced Facebook 6.9.1, an incremental update which promises to alleviate these woes, and perhaps others as well.
Facebook bluntly calls these code corrections “bug fixes.” The web giant is always short for words when it comes to fixing its own mistakes, but at least the update was deployed swiftly.
All that remains now is for customers to confirm that Facebook got it right this time around. There are currently no reviews/comments attributed to this version, suggesting all’s well again.
New users can download Facebook 6.9.1 on any iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 6.0 or newer. The client supports dozens of different languages, including Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Chinese.