∞ Facebook 3.0 iPhone app will not have push notifications

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There are going to be some happy Facebook users on the iPhone very soon. The company announced on Sunday that the newest version of its Facebook app has been submitted to Apple’s App Store, but it won’t have Push notification.

Facebook 3.0The new version includes a lot of new features, including a brand new interface design. In addition, some features that were available on the Web that were not in the iPhone app have been added.

First reported by Inside Facebook, the new Facebook 3.0 will include:

  • The “new” News Feed
  • Like
  • Events (including the ability to RSVP)
  • Notes
  • Pages
  • Create new photo albums
  • Upload photos to any album
  • Zoom into photos
  • Easier photo tagging
  • Profile Pictures albums
  • A new home screen for easy access to all your stuff, search, and notifications
  • Add your favorite profiles and pages to the home screen
  • Better Notifications (they link to the comments so you can reply)
  • Quickly call or text people right from the Friends page
  • Messages you are typing will be restored if you quit or are interrupted by a phone call

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The one feature that Facebook users have been asking for on the iPhone — Push Notification — will not make it in this version, according to the company. Users will have to wait until version 3.1, which the company said will come later this year.


  • Steven M. Alper

    But more importantly, will it allow text to be selected? The iPhone now has copy and paste, but you can’t select text in the current version of the Facebook app for use elsewhere (e.g., copying links to paste into Twitter).

  • Gerry Curry

    So, no Groups support… again?

  • Scott

    Even MORE importantly, will it stop crashing, showing the same status updates over and over, and actually allow me to submit text to the site more than 50% of the time without an error?

  • Jim Dalrymple

    Wow, Scott, I haven’t seen any of those problems with my Facebook app. I hope the new version fixes your problems.

  • Steve

    I get scotts problems and worse. The chat function doesn’t work at all. They better fix this in the new update

  • Tom

    It’s a common problem. Posting comments works less than 50% of the time for me. I gave up on the iPhone app and went back to the web app.

  • http://www.callingallgeeks.org Man with iPhone

    Can’t wait to get my hands on the latest version. The new notes features will be very handy

  • Mike

    Not sure if I want push, except if someone sends me a private msg, but then I already get a txt message for that. Do we really need to get notified every time someone updates their status?

    I get enough txt msg’s with replies/comments.

    But I am looking forward to the new interface. Hopefully it’ll make the app a little more usable.

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  • Julia

    What am I doing wrong Updated my iPod touch to 3.0 still getting the same message on facebook telling me to update but when I go back to app store it says I have no new updates. Help!

  • http://www.attusers.com iphone Forums

    Am I in the minority? I dont care for push with FB. Seriously your that connected to your FB friends to want to know the minutes anything happens?