How To Add Facebook To Nav Bar

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The navigation bar, which is on the bottom of the Facebook app in iOS and at the top in Android, will be customizable, allowing users to supplant some icons with the features they apply the nigh.

The current navigation bar shows all users in the same country shortcuts to the same 5 things, which in the United States are the News Feed, notifications, bill of fare, Lookout man, and Marketplace icons. In the new version, which Facebook will exist rolling out to users over the next few weeks, according to an article in CNET, the News Feed, menu and notifications icons will remain, but the remaining icons volition show the stuff the users use the most. This will happen automatically at first based on usage, but eventually, people will exist able to prepare them upwardly the style they want.

"We want the shortcuts bachelor in the navigation bar to reflect how an individual uses Facebook," Product Manager Alexa Andrzejewski said in a statement to CNET. "To that end, we're customizing mobile shortcuts and then everyone can more easily connect with their nigh frequently used products."

facebook menu bar redesign — How the Navigation Bars and Menu wait in the current iOS app

Highlights:

Nearly users will meet between iv and vi icons in their personalized navigation bar.
Products that aren't featured on the navigation bar volition even so be found past tapping the menu icon.
When Facebook adds a new app icon, you will receive a notification.
They started testing the new feature in February.
It's besides a reminder that Facebook tracks what y'all exercise in the app, which may plow some people off already worried nigh their privacy on Facebook.

Go deeper:

Facebook is making its navigation bar a fiddling more personal –The Verge
Facebook is personalizing the navigation bar on its mobile app –CNET
Facebook's Rough Week Continues as #DeleteFacebook is Trending –SocialChimp