Facebook will disable ‘Friends nearby’ and other location features on May 31

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  • Users will be able to download location history until August 1, 2022 to save their information.
  • Facebook will remove its podcast platform on June 3.
The service was launched in 2014.
The service was launched in 2014.

Meta has informed Facebook users that at the end of May it will suspend some of its location-based services, including ‘Nearby Friends‘.

It is an optional function and is used to receive notifications when a user’s contacts are nearby. In addition, the warnings are made by tracking the location.

9toMac points out that users have begun to receive messages in the Facebook app for iOS and Android, detailing that this service will stop working on May 31.

Facebook supports in a filtered document that it does not know what happens to user data.

Facebook has also warned that other experiences such as weather alerts and location history will also disappear by the end of this month.

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Therefore, it has indicated that users will be able to access and download the location history until August 1, 2022 to save their information. From then on, the app will delete this data.

The company has stressed that it will continue to collect location data from users “for other experiences” and that this tracking can be disabled from the Privacy Settings section.