Regularly checking your Facebook feed on your iPhone on the move can be great, but less so in those tricky locations where you can’t get a cellular connection. Facebook has revealed that it is testing some new features for its mobile app to help overcome such frustrating situations.
One is these is, when the handset does have a connection, saving content that has appeared on your feed, but you have not yet viewed. This will allow you to later still see the content within the app even when you’re offline.
Facebook similarly intends to allow you to still comment on posts when your cellular connection has gone AWOL; your comments will be stored in the app before, once your connection returns, being posted. We can see this feature potentially leading to misunderstandings in more time-sensitive Facebook chats, but it should often prove a good enough “make-do” function.
Facebook has not specified exactly when these new features will arrive for all users of the iOS app, instead saying little more than that the team will be “testing and rolling this out over time to gather feedback”.