{"id":52720,"date":"2013-10-09T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=52720"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:06:34","slug":"rumor-facebook-preparing-graph-search-for-its-ios-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rumor-facebook-preparing-graph-search-for-its-ios-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Facebook preparing Graph Search for its iOS apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources familiar with the <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> iOS apps have reported to <em>9to5Mac<\/em> that the company is preparing to bring <a title=\"Graph Search\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-announces-graph-search-beta-to-mine-information-from-its-1-billion-users\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Graph Search<\/a> to mobile. Facebook&#8217;s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps could all receive the update in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve forgotten, Graph Search is Facebook&#8217;s feature that makes every post, like and comment you&#8217;ve ever made searchable. This means you can type in a query like &#8220;Friends who like Breaking Bad&#8221; and you&#8217;ll be given results for friends who have liked the Breaking Bad Facebook Page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52735\" title=\"facebookapp 9to5mac\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/facebookapp-568x488.png\" alt=\"facebookapp 9to5mac\" width=\"568\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/facebookapp-568x488.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/facebookapp-256x220.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2013\/10\/facebookapp.png 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also rumored to be working on redesigning the <a title=\"Facebook messenger\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook-messenger.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Messenger<\/a> app, which isn&#8217;t much of a surprise as Facebook recently <a title=\"Facebook redesigned for iOS 7\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-redesigned-for-ios-7-features-bottom-menu-bar\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated its iOS apps<\/a> to fit iOS 7&#8217;s style. Messenger is said to be getting a new feature where it can scan your iPhone&#8217;s address book to see which friends use Messenger. This will help Facebook strengthen its messaging stronghold, competing with Apple&#8217;s own iMessage and Google&#8217;s <a title=\"Google Hangouts\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/upcoming-android-hangouts-update-to-support-smsmms\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hangouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is no expected release date for this Facebook update.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/h4>\n<h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-monetizes-instagram-with-in-feed-ads\">Facebook monetizes Instagram with in-feed ads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-home-update-integrates-instagram-tumblr-flickr\">Facebook Home update integrates Instagram, Tumblr, Flickr<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-facebook-google-and-others-back-government-transparency-bill\">Apple, Facebook, Google and others back government transparency bill<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"9to5Mac\" href=\"http:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2013\/10\/09\/facebook-prepares-major-updates-to-iphone-apps-as-top-engineer-returns-to-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">9to5Mac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources familiar with the Facebook iOS apps have reported to 9to5Mac that the company is preparing to bring Graph Search to mobile. Facebook&#8217;s iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad apps could all receive the update in the near future. If you&#8217;ve forgotten, Graph Search is Facebook&#8217;s feature that makes every post, like and comment you&#8217;ve ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/rumor-facebook-preparing-graph-search-for-its-ios-apps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rumor: Facebook preparing Graph Search for its iOS apps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":52735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2656],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-52720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongraph"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720","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=52720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332027,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52720\/revisions\/332027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52720"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=52720"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=52720"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=52720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}