{"id":39355,"date":"2013-04-16T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T17:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=39355"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:30:39","slug":"facebook-6-0-for-ios-brings-chat-heads-to-the-iphone-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-6-0-for-ios-brings-chat-heads-to-the-iphone-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook 6.0 for iOS brings Chat Heads to the iPhone, iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook for iOS brings chat heads to iphone, ipad\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-6-0-for-ios-brings-chat-heads-to-the-iphone-ipad\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39359\" title=\"facebook for ios icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/facebook-for-ios-icon.jpg\" alt=\"facebook for ios icon\" width=\"125\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a>Android has been getting a lot love from <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> recently with the introduction of <a title=\"facebook home\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-home-will-completely-change-how-you-use-your-android-device\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Home<\/a> and the new Chat Heads feature built into <a title=\"facebook messenger chat heads\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-messenger-for-android-get-chat-heads\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger<\/a>. Facebook doesn&#8217;t want iOS users to feel left out so the company is rolling out a new version of the Facebook app for iOS. The update will bring a redesigned news feed for the iPad as well as Chat Heads for both the iPhone and iPad, though there is a caveat.<\/p>\n<p>The Chat Heads feature can only be used within the Facebook app itself. Chat Heads cannot pop up as a persistent notification throughout the phone like it does on Android since iOS doesn&#8217;t allow apps to have access to elevated privileges. However, iPhone Facebook users can look forward to sending a bunch of whimsical &#8220;stickers&#8221; to their friends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39364\" title=\"facebook for ios chat heads\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/facebook-for-ios-chat-heads.png\" alt=\"facebook for ios chat heads\" width=\"540\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/facebook-for-ios-chat-heads.png 540w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/facebook-for-ios-chat-heads-300x266.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chat Heads are a great addition to the Facebook app for iOS as it helps users answer messages quickly without being taken away from browsing Facebook. It&#8217;s a shame that iOS doesn&#8217;t allow apps to deeply integrate with the operating system. This also means that Facebook Home won&#8217;t be coming to iOS any time soon, unless Apple changes its app developer policies. Adam Mosseri, Facebook&#8217;s director of product, told <a title=\"bloomberg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-04-15\/facebook-talking-to-apple-about-new-home-software-for-iphone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a> on that the company is in talks with Apple about bringing Facebook Home to the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Still, iOS not getting Facebook Home <a title=\"facebook home hands on\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/hands-on-with-facebook-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wouldn&#8217;t be the worst thing in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the updated Facebook for iOS <a title=\"facebook for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"the verge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2013\/4\/16\/4230274\/facebook-6-0-for-ipad-and-iphone-hands-on-with-chat-heads-stickers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Verge<\/a> | <a title=\"ars technica\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/2013\/04\/facebooks-chat-heads-headed-to-ios-later-today\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android has been getting a lot love from Facebook recently with the introduction of Facebook Home and the new Chat Heads feature built into Facebook Messenger. Facebook doesn&#8217;t want iOS users to feel left out so the company is rolling out a new version of the Facebook app for iOS. The update will bring a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-6-0-for-ios-brings-chat-heads-to-the-iphone-ipad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook 6.0 for iOS brings Chat Heads to the iPhone, iPad&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":39364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-39355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333098,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions\/333098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=39355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}