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* Connect with friends and family and meet new people on your social media network
* Set status updates & use Facebook emoji to help relay what’s going on in your world
* Share photos, videos, and your favorite memories.
* Get notifications when friends like and comment on your posts
* Find local social events, and make plans to meet up with friends
* Play games with any of your Facebook friends
* Backup photos by saving them in albums
* Follow your favorite artists, websites, and companies to get their latest news
* Look up local businesses to see reviews, operation hours, and pictures
* Buy and sell locally on Facebook Marketplace
* Watch live videos on the go
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The functionality of this app is nothing less than frustrating. The auto refresh interrupts articles that I’m reading because even though I set it to open everything in a browser, it still opens within the app half the time. And if I switch to a different app and come back to Facebook, it auto refreshed then too and I’ve lost my spot. And I can almost never find replies to my comments on reels. Just garbage.
Recently I’ve experienced reels not stopping playback even when I turn off my screen and fold my phone closed. The video continues playing until I force the app closed. Not to mention that the aspect ratio on the fold 4 is disgusting. Everything is just zoomed in, and when watching reels most of the video is cut off. Please develop an aspect ratio of 23.1:9 for use with larger screen phones.
Thought it was just my phone having issues, but I see that more people are experiencing the same issues. The way the pages won’t load when trying to read comments made me think it’s my internet connection or WIFI, but it’s not. When I try to like a post, the options to select an emoji goes away, and I have to click on them a second time. This is frustrating because I worry that I’m going to select the wrong emotion when this happens. Facebook, you can do better.
At first I didn’t have any problems with the app till the recent update. When watching a reel, the top left corner has this static thing going on in the video. It looks like a TV channel that is not getting reception from a antenna. On the Fold 4. Other than that, awesome app.
This happened to me several times now, the Facebook app will close abruptly while I’m trying to compose a post reply to a post on the main feed channel I saw. If I don’t complete the message within it’s window, all my work I put into my reply post is lost. Some times I can’t even find the original post. I’m not a quick writer and it takes me time to submit my post so when it times out and forcing a close/restart of the app it’s frustrating beyond belief. FB is slowly going down hill.
Facebook has security issues. I’ve noticed that my private saved list has been copied a couple of times (apparently by hackers). When I save a video and close the list, there are a couple of identical lists that close right behind it. I also realized that cover pictures that I had saved under “for me” (i.e. a private setting) was actually seen by everyone on my friends list. I saved the pictures to use at a later date. Thankfully someone brought it to my attention.
There are things you can do from your browser that aren’t available in the app (especially if you manage a group). But once I installed this on my phone it won’t let me view Facebook from chrome. If I type the web address in, it automatically jumps to the app There’s lots of other buggy stuff, but I can’t tell if it’s the site (Facebook site is as buggy as they come) or the app.
Installed to get access to marketplace a year ago and has been a horrible experience. So many problems with the so constantly trying to force access to contacts, text messages, and other private access it should never get. Constantly bombarded with spam, ads, and awful disinformation or topics completely irrelevant to me. Crashes at least twice a month and crashes my while phone at least once a month. If you need more garbage in your life here it is.
After the recent update, there are issues. It gives notification that a friend mentioned me in a comment on their post, but when clicking the notification, it takes me to the reels/ video feed and not the comment. Seems like the upgrade is focused more on adding videos to newsfeed or directing you to videos with ads rather than improving the experience of using the app.
Doesn’t show updates at all. Tested it with two devices and accounts, ended up being a couple hours before notification was received. Also, ability to comment on videos is messed up, 90%of the time it wont load. If it wasn’t for the ability to share pictures with family, I would have dropped this app long ago. MySpace was better.
Bad update. The dating section needs more features. Show when people are online. Make it possible to like a profile separate from liking only pictures. Sometimes i just like only pictures and don’t want to match. But every action results to matching. I can’t translate messages i get from a spanish match. That’s a problem. It won’t let me copy the text to Google translate. Once you select text it wants you to love it or thumbs up. Do you people test the app yourselves to know what is going on????
The amount of problems I have with this app is ridiculous. The newest thing, I had to update was to use the two face whatever for my business page. Had to reset my password because that wasn’t working, and now it tell me I cannot continue because the connection was lost. Half of my clients communicate with me through Facebook and now I can’t even respond to them because of this. The problems never end.
Facebook is awesome. I use it daily but for some reason when I try to post a story, the photo doesn’t upload and the entire post turns completely black. Sometimes it will show the stickers and play the music I’ve added to the story but the picture doesn’t display all the time. It’s really annoying and I’ve reported the problem 2 or 3 times and heard nothing back. Now my Facebook story won’t upload but my account isn’t banned from posting. I updated the app and my phone software.
I have a Samsung galaxy s10e. Ive had nothing but problems, it won’t even work at all if I’m on wifi. I wish I could undo the last update, the sign in screen is now full screen. When I’m looking at most recent feeds and there’s a post with a video when I touch the play icon it takes me to the main menu and I can’t just go back, it takes me back to the top of the page. When I try to log out another window pops up and I have to tap log out again. I hate all these changes without improvement.
Lately, the app has been pausing and glitching very badly. It is running very slow, and when you click on a video, it does not open right away. Then, all of a sudden, you hear music or talking but it is not showing you the video 🙄 I also tried to update prices on my business page shop and the link has disappeared to update prices, pictures, or descriptions. I can’t even add anything to my shop. It’s very frustrating. More and more, this app is not the app for business or personal
The Facebook app has come a long ways and improved a lot over the past few years, however, there are a few issues I hope to see fixed. My settings keep defaulting back to links opening up in the Facebook browser rather than Chrome. I don’t know why it keeps reverting back. The other issue is ads. Facebook has started to place just too many ads in your news feed.
Edit: You will NEVER receive notifications that someone commented on your status. And it stupefies me that no one will fix this issue. However, they will notify you of badges left and right all day. Even for pages you’ve never interacted with. Nor do you get all of the settings and features with this app. For instance, dark mode and video clips are both missing.
The app has gotten worse and more hostile to user choices. It freezes and will not load feed. I do enjoy connecting with my friends and community, but it takes time with all the problems that have started in the last few weeks. I have been able to hide some of the thousands of ads by personalizing my choices, but beware there are layers to this hidden in many places. Simply choosing the “x” does not remove them.
On Pixel 6 Pro. Sometimes when I’m done with a video and click the replay button, the replay button and overlay remains on the video while the video plays again in the background. That’s bug #1 for me. Bug #2 for me is sometimes I click on articles or links and they don’t do anything, but if I close the app and open it again then navigate to the place where I saw the link and try to open it, it works fine. Pretty sure there’s a third bug I’ve experienced as well but can’t remember what it is.
Could you please center our profile pages again? When it was centered everything was even, it looked great, and my slight OCD tendencies appreciated it very much! Why it was changed, I don’t know but it looks tacky now. The whole right side is just blank. Every profile I click on it’s like something is missing on the right side, it’s uneven, and it’s unappealing to the eye. The old saying goes “don’t “fix” what isn’t broken.” Take note of that.
Irritated Almost every day I get several notifications a day. That’s not the problem. The problem is, the notifications are repeated over and over. I don’t need to be notified three times in one day about the exact same post. Not get off Facebook! I want to keep some notifications turned on but you’re making it to the point where I want to shut all notifications off. What a joke. Never repeat. Never repeat.
Byzantine settings that are constantly changing and moving, no doubt to revert (to default) any setting that increases user control, reduces facebook’s ability to mine data, or otherwise interferes with its business plan… Just spent a long time rewriting a comment when the screen abruptly switched to my Newsfeed, sending my work into the ether. Also, the fact that there’s no way to turn off the AI or whatever it is that tries to write or complete comments for you is indefensible.
Z FOLD 4: I have been using the app and it’s been great for a long time on various devices, but this app isn’t optimized for The Fold series of phone. If I am looking at something on the outer screen the second I open the inner screen to get a better view it’s like I opened the app on a completely different device and everything I was looking at is gone. Some apps have figured out how to make this transition. Meta has not.
Good but lacks some features. I recently purchased a galaxy tab S8 and the facebook app does not support dark mode. this is a must for me as I do not like the brightness of apps that are primarily white. Another thing I think this app is missing for tablets is being able to customize where the different buttons are. I would like to be able to put the buttons at the top of the screen like they are on my phone. Just a few suggestions. Otherwise I really enjoy the app.
You people HAVE to do something about your android app! While trying to watch Facebook videos, not only is every 3rd item a frigging ad, but you’ll be sitting watching a video and all of a sudden, for no apparent reason, it crashes and dumps uou back to the menu. When you try to go back to it, it loses your place and now you have to scroll thru 500 ads in HOPES of finding where you left off! This app is the epitome of amateur programming skills!!!!
Galaxy S22. As of 11/24/22, the “like” button when watching reels has disappeared. This applies to all reels. If you accidently “like” a reel by double tapping the video, there is currently no way to unlike it, since there is no button to unclick, so it ends up stuck on your like list. On reels the comments also have a large chance of not loading now. Sometimes I have to click it and back out and click again up to 34 times to make more than a white box display.
Not sure if this is a setting or just another bug in the update, but everytime someone sends me a FB ree/video,l I cannot open it to see the video. When I click on the video in messenger it sends me to the FB video screen and not to the video in question. It’s just some random video. I have never had an issue before, and it’s very annoying not being able to see the video someone sent me.
It’s not letting me log back in to my account. It keeps telling me to secure account and I do the whole process then when I tap “go to news feed” it says “no connection” and when I tap try again it stays on a blue screen. When I close the app and try again, it’s the same thing all over again. It’s not my internet connection so it’s a problem on your end and you need to fix it RIGHT NOW.
10 years ago, this app was peak. Now it’s nothing but ads. No matter how many times I ask to hide stuff from the Shop or specific ads, it still pops back up in the feed, the exact same items from the Shop, exact same ads. Same for Instagram. Update: every three posts i scroll through, a really stupid ad pops up, like ads that don’t even apply to me and what I even care for. No wonder Tiktok is the superior app. At least I can see those 90% less than this stupid app. Edit: FIX THE DAMN AD SYSTEM
Lately I can’t pause reels anymore or even mute them. I used to be able to pause and fast-forward/rewind but now I can’t. This was a huge reason I watch them on fb versus Instagram which I can at least mute. Also when a video is posted in a comment section there is no option to pause/play or see the length of the video, etc which is really annoying if you miss a part. You just have to watch the whole video again. Further annoying if it’s a long video. Fix this please!
It’s incredibly annoying to comment on a post in a group and get notifications that say someone replied to yours, only to be met with nothing and a message on the bottom saying “most relevant is selected. Some replies have been filtered out” with literally no way of changing this without going to the original post and sorting by new and losing your comment in the sea of others. It’s such a small thing that could be easily fixed but has been this way for awhile.
After the update on 11/23/22, I experienced buffering on this app. Many videos just buffer and or comments will not appear and just flash a empty box!! While playing a video, it will stop and begin buffering and either play after a while or just stop!! I’m over it and ready to delete the account!! This has happened with many updates but this is the first time I’ve said something!! UHG!! Good luck!!
I keep getting logged off and receiving a “Session Expired” error. This is super annoying. I’ve cleared my cache, data, and even concretely un-installed and re-installed. Nothing fixes it. This happens multiple times a day, sometimes several times in a row. I also have been trying to add my new phone number for almost 2 years now, but the SMS won’t ever send for me to verify the number. I made sure to check all my Facebook settings to make sure SMS is turned on, still nothing. Very frustrating
This product has become a tool only to control the information for the end user. Both bad and worse. Every other post is advertisements. I didn’t get the product to shop. Novel idea how about going back to being a communication tool in the control of the end user. Worse of all is that they truely don’t want your honest and open minded feedback. It is only available if your feedback fits into one of their cookie cutter categories. Very disappointing.
App is a nightmare to use on a tablet. Every post is gigantic and you have to scroll to see a full photo. The screen orientation automatically changes to vertical when you want to type something, which is extremely unhelpful when I am using a keyboard. I understand this is likely designed to be used on a smaller device, but it should be programmed to adjust to screen size or else just make a separate app that is designed for tablets.
For the last week or so whenever I’ve been watching a news or video article, it will freeze and the whole app will shutdown and reboot. I’ve made sure it has the update and I’ve even deleted the app and uploaded it again and it still does it. I’m using a Samsung Galaxy A21 and made sure it’s up to date as well. Very frustrating!
Needs a complete reset. In the past few months, I don’t get go-live notifications from the user I follow most. It’s the one I engage with the most! All my settings have been checked and reset- so the algorithm is def messed up. The app has become v glitchy and many posts don’t fully load. Oh! – and the ads – every other post is an ad?! Wondering if I need to uninstall and reinstall but afraid I’ll lose some things. I see a lot of similar comments so i know it’s not just me – Please do better!
Terrible app: very buggy, inconsistent, unintuitive and the Facebook service in general censors anyone and anything it wants. You can’t say anything about it because apparently they can’t even afford to have any form of a call/help center. Doesn’t have any option for basic video player features and all posts have “most relevant” selected instead of “all comments” there is no global setting to change this… smh.
I don’t really even use Facebook anymore, but the dating section just flat out doesn’t work after this recent update. I’ve tried logging out, deleting the app and re-installing, and opening it on an internet browser – not just the app – all to no avail. It just tells me to update it in the app store, which I have already… Honestly, Facebook is the new MySpace. It won’t be long until it’s flat out gone. They’re trying to extend it by adding TV and other random stuff, but it just sucks.
The whole looking back at memories on a day is gone. Now the very first thing on my feed is an ad. It’s worse than the fact that after a few posts you get even more ads. I tried hiding them but then the next time I log in there are the same ads. This time you can only click the x and hope it works. I tried tuning my feed and changing interest but it never works. Besides ads for popular things I get ads for things from other states even though I have location on. This is just an app for ads.
This app continues to fail. Music from this app plays out of my phone even after I close the app. Many times I have to turn off my phone to be able to stop the music. When trying to delete a post- the post does not disappear. I have to go to trash to confirm deletion and then enter my password in order to verify it’s me. And then, many times the post is still there! Also, many times I get the same AD over and over despite clicking on “hide ad” or “show less”. It’s a very frustrating system.
This has been going on for months, ive deactivated, uninstalled and reinstalled the app trying to get this to work but i cant.. the market place wont let me add any filters at all. I add a filter and it just says “no results”.. even something as simple as saying i want the body style of a truck and it wont give me any results. I can scroll through the store and see tons of motors, household, vehicles, etc.. but the second 1 filter is added i cant get any results.
I have no updates so I know that isn’t the issue to the problem I’m having. My problem is I’m not receiving notifications, also it keeps saying I have an unread message but I do not. I have checked the folders, not even a spam message so not sure why that is popping up. Not only that but some pages are not loading and when they do they go so slow and then throw me back to the top of the page. Also I’m seeing newfeed from a week ago and hardly any new stuff is showing.