Facebook for Android & iOS Updated with Customizable Notifications Tab

Knowing this, the social network is aiming to make the tab a lot more useful, providing the user with more information than just what it offers now, and hoping to provide a better experience because of it.

The new feature from Facebook has been created to let users read articles on the go, along with cutting down the load times to less than one-tenth of those in normal browsers. “Along with your notifications, you can see and customize timely info”.

You know those friendly reminders Facebook sends when it’s someone’s birthday or anniversary?

The personalised notifications are only available to United States users presently and came alongside a new report from Facebook IQ, its marketing insights unit, highlighting that almost a three in 10 online purchases converted by Facebook between January to May this year were done from a mobile device.

A user’s notifications settings still won’t change with the update, meaning there’s no need to worry about getting a sudden avalanche of notifications.

“Every day, people use their notifications to keep up-to-date with their friends and family”, Facebook Product Manager Keith Peiris wrote in a blog post. What do you think about this new personalized notifications tab? Events happening in your vicinity, such as news popular in your area as well as local events will be covered in notifications. A mobile user instead see “cards” to view any information that is relevant to the content he or she had Liked in the platform, as well as information Facebook has derived from the user’s preferences. People will be able to adjust the cards they want to see.

The update began rolling out in Facebook’s iOS and Android apps to users in the USA on Monday.

In addition, the users of Facebook’s apps for iOS and Android will also get weather updates including the latest weather conditions as well as alerts about severe weather. If this all sounds familiar, there are many similarities to Google Now.