Facebook for iPhone Now Pulls the News Feed From m.facebook.com
Earlier this month, Facebook released an update for the Facebook for iPhone mobile app that included an “Improved news feed”, but no one seemed to understand what had actually changed. We’ve determined that the native app now pulls the news feed directly from mobile site m.facebook.com.
This allows Facebook’s engineers to subtly push news feed design and backend changes to the iPhone without a software update, and lets them maintain one set of code instead of two.
Previously, the Facebook for iPhone app pulled the news feed directly from Facebook private native app APIs.
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