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Facebook Feed Filter Bar: How to change your news feed so it's chronological

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook app?
Maggie Tillman, US contributing editor

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook app?
· 1 April 2021 ·

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How do I see most recent posts on Facebook app?
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(Pocket-lint) - Facebook is introducing a Feed Filter Bar feature that will give you more precise control over your news feed. It basically lets you see posts chronologically - or by most recent, in the order they were posted - by simply toggling away from its usual algorithmic feed.

Technically, the company has offered users the option to sort feeds by “most recent", but it buried it in a settings menu. Facebook also launched a Favourites feature last October that allows users to select up to 30 friends and pages so that Facebook will display posts from them in a separate feed. Now, Favorites and Recents are front and centre - at the top of the news feed in separate tabs.

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How Facebook's Feed Filter Bar works

By default, Facebook's news feed uses a process called ranking to show you posts that the social network believes are relevant to you. But Facebook is now rolling out what it calls the Feed Filter Bar. It lets you easily toggle between three different news feed options:

  • Home (or Top Stories): Facebook's algorithmically tuned news feed, where it decides which popular posts to show you first.
  • Favourites: A news feed that shows posts from your "favourite" 30 friends and pages. (Go here to learn how to manage favorites.)
  • Recents: A chronological news feed displaying recent posts shared by your friends and pages, in the order they were posted.

The idea is, with the Feed Filter Bar, you will be able to better explore the content being shared with you by all your friends and pages. For example, to only see recent posts, you can sort your news feed to see your Recent feed. This means that you will see recent posts from the people and pages you follow, but you’ll see their newest posts first. Alternatively, you can see posts from your favourite friends.

Note: Facebook said you can update Favourites at any time. (From the down-facing arrow, go to Settings and Privacy > News Feed Preferences > Manage Favorites. Then, to select a Favourite, click the star icon next to a friend or page.)

When will the Feed Filter Bar roll out?

This Feed Filter Bar launched globally on 31 March 2021 for Facebook’s Android app and will come to the iOS app “in the coming weeks".

It’s unclear if it will be available on the web version of Facebook.

Did the Feed Filter Bar disappear for you?

The Feed Filter Bar will appear for all Facebook users when it rolls out, but if you don’t access it over a seven-day period (by toggling between either the Favourites or Recent tab), it may disappear from your view. To find it, again just swipe up in the news feed and then it’ll reappear.

Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced we’re making it easier for you to control what content you see and discover on Facebook. We’re introducing Feeds, a new tab that lets you easily see the most recent posts from your friends, Pages and groups. You can curate a Favorites list of the friends and Pages you care about most and filter their content in this new tab. We’re also naming the primary tab — the first thing you see when you open the app — Home. Home is the starting point for connection, entertainment and discovery on Facebook.

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Feeds: Keeping Up on the Latest

We understand you may want more options when it comes to sorting and seeing your content. There are times you might know just what you’re looking for — say, the latest posts from your groups — or you may want to encounter fresh, entertaining content. As Home becomes more of a discovery engine for you to find and follow new content and creators through recommendations, the Feeds tab provides an easy way to access the content from the people and communities you’re already connected with on Facebook. There are no Suggested For You posts in Feeds and ads are included.

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook app?

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook app?

 

 

Starting today, some people will see Feeds as a tab in their shortcut bar; on iOS, this bar is found at the bottom of the app, and on Android, it’s found at the top. We expect these updates to be rolled out globally over the next week. The tabs in the shortcut bar change based on the parts of the app you’re using the most. You can also personalize and pin a tab in your shortcut bar, making its placement permanent.

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook app?

Home: Where Discovery Happens

We’re introducing the name Home for the tab you see when you first open the Facebook app. This is where you will discover new content through recommendations in addition to connecting with your friends and family. From Home, you can also create a Reel, see what your connections are sharing on Feed and in Stories, and build community over new and shared interests. Your Home tab is uniquely personalized to you through our machine learning ranking system. This system takes into account thousands of signals to help cut through the clutter and rank content in the order we think you will find most valuable. We’re investing in AI to best serve recommended content in this ranked experience.

While Home is where you’ll increasingly find community through your passions and interests, you can continue to stay up-to-date on the people and communities you care about most in Feeds.

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook mobile app?

To see recent posts on iOS and Android devices, you can tap on the Feeds tab. All of the content you see in that tab and the filters within it are the most recent posts from the people, Favorites, Pages, and groups you follow, meaning you'll see the newest posts first.

How do I see most recent posts on Facebook App 2022?

To do this on a mobile device, launch the Facebook app and hit 'Feeds' (square with a clock icon) — it'll be located at the bottom of the page for iOS and the top of the screen for Android.

Why is Facebook not showing most recent posts?

Step 3: Note: If you don't see the Most recent option near the top of the left-side menu, don't worry. You should still be able to access it by selecting the See more option from that same menu. Then, after the menu expands, the Most recent option should appear. You may need to scroll down the left side menu to see it.

Where did most recent go on Facebook app?

Open Facebook app. Tap Menu located at bottom right. Tap See more → Most Recent OR Recent and favourites.