Facebook Announces Rollout of Save Feature

After several tests of a save feature, Facebook announced Monday that it will officially roll out Save to all users via the Web, iOS and Android “over the next few days.”

Save650After several tests of a save feature, Facebook announced Monday that it will officially roll out Save to all users via the Web, iOS and Android “over the next few days.”

Tests of a save for later function first began appearing on Facebook in July 2012, and a save option was spotted on select pages one month after that.

This past March, Studio Publishing Founder and CEO Dan Birdwhistell captured screenshots of a new test of the save feature, and in April, the option to save pages and events was discovered by Sreedev Sharma of Sociobits.

Facebook Software Engineer Daniel Giambalvo introduced the social network’s new Save feature in a Newsroom post:

Every day, people find all sorts of interesting items on Facebook that they don’t have time to explore right away.

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