As a surprise move for Facebook, Meta has decided to discontinue a few location-based features on the social platform for users soon. These will include the Nearby Friends feature on Facebook that lets users locate and track their Facebook friends’ real-time locations, considering the feature is enabled. Additionally, the company will discontinue other location-dependent features like weather alerts, location history, and background location on the platform soon. Let’s check out the details below.
Facebook has reportedly started notifying users about the discontinuation of the features via a notification on its Android and iOS apps. A Twitterati recently took to the Elon Musk-owned platform to share a screenshot of the Facebook notification. The screenshot suggests that the Nearby Friends feature and Weather alerts on Facebook will be discontinued on May 31, 2022. You can check out the screenshot attached right below.
To recall, Nearby Friends was introduced back in 2014 as a way for people to get access to their friends’ real-time locations provided the location permissions were granted. This would allow people to detect nearby friends and probably make plans to meet them.
