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Facebook 3.0 iPhone app will not have push notifications

By Jim DalrympleAugust 16, 2009, 7:52 am PT

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:

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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.



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  1. Posted by Steven M. Alper August 16, 2009, 7:59 am

    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).

  2. Posted by Gerry Curry August 16, 2009, 11:16 am

    So, no Groups support… again?

  3. Posted by Scott August 16, 2009, 11:20 am

    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?

  4. Posted by Jim Dalrymple August 16, 2009, 11:22 am

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

  5. Posted by Steve August 16, 2009, 6:41 pm

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

  6. Posted by Tom August 17, 2009, 5:01 am

    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.

  7. Posted by Man with iPhone August 17, 2009, 6:28 am

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

  8. Posted by Mike August 17, 2009, 1:13 pm

    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.

  9. Posted by Facebook 3.0 released for iPhone and iPod touch | The Loop August 27, 2009, 4:28 pm

    [...] new app was approved by Apple on Thursday and showed up as an update on the App Store. As previously reported, this version does not support push notifications. There are a lot of new changes in this version [...]

  10. Posted by Julia February 2, 2010, 5:44 am

    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!

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