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Meta now listed as Facebook developer on Google Play and App Store

Earlier this year, Facebook was rebranded as Meta, and now the change is reflected on the Google Play Store and iOS.

First reported by Android Police, apps directly associated with Facebook, such as the Messenger app, now list ‘Meta Platforms, Inc.’ as their developer. Previously, Facebook was listed as the developer.

The change only seems to apply to apps directly connected with the Facebook name. While Whatsapp and Instagram are also part of the Facebook family, they aren’t listed as being developed by Meta Platforms, Inc.

MobileSyrup has noted the same change also applies to iOS. While Facebook and Messenger have a change in developer, Instagram lists ‘Instagram, Inc.’ as the developer. WhatsApp lists ‘WhatsApp Inc.’

According to 9to5Google, the change reflects the recent updates in the corporation’s identity and won’t necessarily change the Facebook experience.

Source: Android Police, 9to5Google

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Mobile Syrup

Meta now listed as Facebook developer on Google Play and App Store

Earlier this year, Facebook was rebranded as Meta, and now the change is reflected on the Google Play Store and iOS.

First reported by Android Police, apps directly associated with Facebook, such as the Messenger app, now list ‘Meta Platforms, Inc.’ as their developer. Previously, Facebook was listed as the developer.

The change only seems to apply to apps directly connected with the Facebook name. While Whatsapp and Instagram are also part of the Facebook family, they aren’t listed as being developed by Meta Platforms, Inc.

MobileSyrup has noted the same change also applies to iOS. While Facebook and Messenger have a change in developer, Instagram lists ‘Instagram, Inc.’ as the developer. WhatsApp lists ‘WhatsApp Inc.’

According to 9to5Google, the change reflects the recent updates in the corporation’s identity and won’t necessarily change the Facebook experience.

Source: Android Police, 9to5Google

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You can now use web WhatsApp without your primary phone

FacebookMeta-owned WhatsApp is now rolling out a new multi-device feature that will allow users to link their accounts to up to four additional devices, including WhatsApp for web, and continue to send and receive messages even when the primary smartphone is not connected to the internet, according to MacRumors.

The new feature, which is still in beta, is accessible to everyone using the latest version of WhatsApp. To access the multi-device feature, open WhatsApp, navigate to Settings, tap on Linked Devices and you’ll see a new ‘Multi-Device Beta’ option.

It’s worth noting that once you join WhatsApp Beta, you will be unlinked from all devices and have to re-link. Once linked, the feature will work similarly to how it always has, with the exception that you will be able to send/receive messages regardless of whether your primary smartphone is online. Messages cannot be deleted from a linked device. For now, that functionality remains exclusive to the primary phone connected to WhatsApp.

Also worth noting is that you can’t message or call users who have an older version of WhatsApp on their phone from the connected devices, and you can only have one primary phone connected to your WhatsApp account at a time.

Your primary device also needs to be accessed actively. If you don’t use the primary device connected to WhatsApp for 14 days, all the linked devices will automatically get unlinked.

Via: MacRumors

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You can now use web WhatsApp without your primary phone

FacebookMeta-owned WhatsApp is now rolling out a new multi-device feature that will allow users to link their accounts to up to four additional devices, including WhatsApp for web, and continue to send and receive messages even when the primary smartphone is not connected to the internet, according to MacRumors.

The new feature, which is still in beta, is accessible to everyone using the latest version of WhatsApp. To access the multi-device feature, open WhatsApp, navigate to Settings, tap on Linked Devices and you’ll see a new ‘Multi-Device Beta’ option.

It’s worth noting that once you join WhatsApp Beta, you will be unlinked from all devices and have to re-link. Once linked, the feature will work similarly to how it always has, with the exception that you will be able to send/receive messages regardless of whether your primary smartphone is online. Messages cannot be deleted from a linked device. For now, that functionality remains exclusive to the primary phone connected to WhatsApp.

Also worth noting is that you can’t message or call users who have an older version of WhatsApp on their phone from the connected devices, and you can only have one primary phone connected to your WhatsApp account at a time.

Your primary device also needs to be accessed actively. If you don’t use the primary device connected to WhatsApp for 14 days, all the linked devices will automatically get unlinked.

Via: MacRumors

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Facebook says outage wasn’t malicious, blames a ‘faulty configuration change’

Facebook says a “faulty configuration change” is to blame for a seven-hour global outage across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp that grounded much of the internet to a halt yesterday.

The update came from Santosh Janardhan, Facebook’s vice-president of infrastructure, in a post on the social media platform’s engineering blog:

“Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication. This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt.”

The blog post emphasized that there was “no malicious activity behind this outage” and “no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.”

This assurance comes in response to the many theories and conspiracies circulating online — on the few remaining social media platforms that survived the ‘snap’ — during the outage, all speculating about what the cause could be.

Jane Lytvynenko, a researcher and freelance reporter specializing in tracking online disinformation, shared some common scams making the rounds:

The outage started at roughly 11:30am ET/8:30am PT on September 4th, and is estimated to have affected tens of thousands of users.

According to iMore, the outage had folks flocking onto Twitter in record numbers to communicate and commiserate, much to the platform’s delight.

The unprecedented traffic then, of course, broke Twitter, resulting in some users being unable to view replies or DMs.

Source: iMore