IT House May 6 news, Facebook began to notify users on Thursday that nearby friends and other location-based features will be available inend of the monthstop using.While it’s unclear why, the company claims that all information related to these features will beDeleted from Facebook’s servers.
Users can already receive notifications about the end of “Nearby Friends” in the Facebook app for iOS and Android, a feature that allows people to share their current location with other Facebook friends. At the same time, Facebook also said that time alerts, location history and background location are also “going away soon.”
Officials say that after May 31, 2022, users will no longer be able to use Nearby Friends and other location-based features.For example, the user’s location history data, etc. will be August 1, 2022Available for download before. After August 1, Facebook will delete this data.
IT Home understands that this does not mean that the Facebook app will stop collecting user locations. The company said,Location data will still be collected “for other experiences”. However, users can disable the Facebook app’s access to location through the iOS privacy settings.
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