End applause for Facebook Lite. This Wednesday, August 12, 2020, Facebook is removing the Lite version of its app from the App StoreThe American social network motivated this decision as follows: The number of users is very low and those downloaded since the app’s launch in 2018. The Android version is unaffected and remains available on the Google Play Store.
““Due to limited adoption and new features we are introducing to enhance our users’ experience with our apps, we will no longer support Facebook Lite for iOS.” the social network said in an official statement.
Facebook Lite is a very useful application
As a reminder, Facebook Lite is a less greedy version As a resource like the “classic” Facebook application. Facebook Lite is primarily aimed at users with faulty or weak Internet connections. We are especially thinking of people living in white areas or in rural areas where the signal leaves something to be desired.
To operate on as little bandwidth as possible, Facebook Lite skips downloading high-resolution images or autoplaying videos. These few concessions allow the app to run on the vast majority of Android devices, including smartphones that are several years old.
Facebook Lite is also much less impressive than the classic app. 8.7MB Compared to 244.7 MB for Facebook after all updates were installed. Despite all these features, the app has never found its target audience on iOS. Brazilian users were the first to learn that Facebook Lite was shut down.
All users who opened the app on Tuesday, August 11 received the following message: ““Facebook Lite for iOS will be disabled. You can use the original Facebook app to stay in touch with friends and family.” Messenger Lite, the other lightweight app in the Facebook group, not affected by possible deletion.
Source : MacRumors
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