{"id":40436,"date":"2013-04-30T21:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=40436"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:28:46","slug":"facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-ditches-metro-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-ditches-metro-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook beta for Windows Phone ditches \u2018Metro\u2019 design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"facebook beta for windows phone ditches metro design\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-ditches-metro-design\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-40438\" title=\"facebook beta windows phone icon\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/icon1.png\" alt=\"facebook beta windows phone icon\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>The current <a title=\"facebook app for windows phone\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-windows-phone7.en.softonic.com\/windows-phone-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook app<\/a> for Windows Phone isn&#8217;t very good. That&#8217;s why Microsoft is launching a new beta version of Facebook for Windows Phone 8. Users will be able to try out the latest features like support for high-resolution photos, sharing posts, and the new <a title=\"facebook timeline\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/b\/facebook-timeline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Timeline<\/a>. Microsoft wants those who download the Facebook beta to provide feedback about issues and features users want to see in the final version. There&#8217;s a dedicated feedback button to quickly send the development team your comments and requests.<\/p>\n<p>The old app was styled after Microsoft&#8217;s &#8220;Metro&#8221; design language, which featured a column interface that you could swipe between. The Facebook beta uses the same design language that the <a title=\"facebook for android\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> and <a title=\"facebook for ios\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> apps already share. There&#8217;s a menu button at the top to access the navigation sidebar, which gives users sections for the News Feed, Messages, Events, and Friends list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40439\" title=\"facebook beta windows phone combined\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/combined1.jpg\" alt=\"facebook beta windows phone combined\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/combined1.jpg 658w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/04\/combined1-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The complete redesign of Facebook for Windows Phone comes after the <a title=\"Twitter for Windows Phone updates to match Android and iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/twitter-for-windows-phone-updates-to-match-android-and-ios\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter app also ditched its &#8220;Metro&#8221; styling<\/a> back in February. It seems Microsoft is becoming less strict with the design language of third party applications.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the Facebook beta for Windows Phone 8 <a title=\"facebook beta for windows phone 8\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-beta.en.softonic.com\/windows-phone-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here on Softonic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current Facebook app for Windows Phone isn&#8217;t very good. That&#8217;s why Microsoft is launching a new beta version of Facebook for Windows Phone 8. Users will be able to try out the latest features like support for high-resolution photos, sharing posts, and the new Facebook Timeline. Microsoft wants those who download the Facebook beta &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-beta-for-windows-phone-ditches-metro-design\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook beta for Windows Phone ditches \u2018Metro\u2019 design&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":40439,"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-40436","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\/40436","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=40436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333007,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40436\/revisions\/333007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=40436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}