14 DAY TRIAL // Facebook announced that it had expanded its "Find Wi-Fi" feature for both the iOS and Android versions of their mobile application to the rest of the world, allowing anyone to find Wi-Fi hotspots much easier and without using a third-party app.
Facebook's "Find Wi-Fi" feature was previously tested in a limited number of countries during the past year or so, but it looks like it became so popular that it's been recently expanded globally to over 2 billion active monthly users, with which the company bragged last week.
Facebook is now the largest social app on both iOS and Android, and, because of this, it now offers a new built-in functionality that should help people who live in areas where cellular data is very rare, as well as those who are always on-the-go and they need Internet connections to work. This is good news, because there's no need to have a third-party app installed that could do this.
"Find Wi-Fi helps you locate available Wi-Fi hot spots nearby that businesses have shared with Facebook from their Page," says Alex Himel, Engineering Director, Facebook, in the press announcement. "So wherever you are, you can easily map the closest connections when your data connection is weak."
Here's how Facebook's Find Wi-Fi works
If you've recently updated the Facebook app on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Android device, all you need to do to enjoy the new "Find Wi-Fi" feature is to go to the hamburger button (it's the last one on the iOS app), then press on "See more..." and you should see Find Wi-Fi there.
Click on Find Wi-Fi and turn it on by pressing on the "Set to Always" button. You'll have to enable Location Services in Settings -> Location -> Always to use the feature, that if you blocked Facebook from accessing your location. That's it, you can now browse the closest available Wi-Fi hotspots on a map and choose the one it has the strongest signal.