Facebook’s mainland mobile app for iPhone and iPad is being updated later today with the ability to take 360-degree photos, publish them on the service like you would regular photos and even use a panoramic image as your profile’s cover photo, TechCrunch has learned.

While the mobile Facebook app has supported panoramic taken with Apple’s stock Camera app for quite some time now, today’s update allows users to snap 360-degree photographs using the app’s built-in camera.

To use this new feature, launch the Facebook app and tap the new 360 Photo option from the top of your News Feed where you update your status, then follow the instructions to take a panoramic image.

Now tap the blue shutter button and follow the onscreen path from start to finish until you've taken a complete panorama. Upon taking the 360-degree photo, you can choose your preferred starting view within the photo when the image is posted to the service.

Panoramic images can be added to groups, friends can be tagged on them and they can be easily shared in albums alongside other images. When shared to your Timeline, 360-degree photos can be panned around, zoomed and more. As mentioned, 360-degree photos (from any source) can be set as your profile’s cover photo.

This is a staggered release for iOS and Android users so check back in a few days if you don’t yet see the new feature in the app.

Facebook for iOS is available free on App Store.

Source link: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2017/08/23/you-can-now-take-360-degree-photos-in-facebooks-ios-app/

from : Mid Atlantic Consulting, Inc.