Facebook iPhone Users Can Find, Share Links Without Browsers

Clicking on the paper clip icon beneath the status update form brings users to the Add a Link menu, where they can enter keywords into a search box to find content that has already been shared to the social network and easily reshare that content with their friends.

Engineering manager Tom Whitnah described the motivation behind Add a Link in a post on Facebook’s engineering blog:

In January, Rousseau Kazi, a product manager who works on search, was frustrated again by how hard it was to share a link on his iPhone.