Facebook overhaul sees five features axed including location tracking
manchestereveningnews.co.ukBy the time June rolls around, Facebook users will find that five features of the social media platform will have been axed.
It comes as Meta, Facebook's parent company, confirmed a major overhaul of the social media giant, taking an axe to poorly performing items including background location, location history, weather alerts, podcasts and nearby friends - all of which will be unavailable after May 31.
The five services are being cut due to "low usage" after sending a notification to users who have previously used the services, The Mirror reports. Read more: Rebekah Vardy's messages about 'cheating' celebrity and Man City winger row And just a year after they launched, podcasts will no longer be available on Facebook, as the company looks to develop other services, saying it will stop with its short-form audio product Soundbites and will also axe its central audio hub.
Facebook confirmed that information shared with the company for background location and location history will cease being collected at the end of this month though, according to the company's data policy, users will still have their data location collected for other services.
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