Facebook Launches 'Events' App for iOS, Coming Soon to Android

Facebook has launched a dedicated Events app for iOS users. The app is available to download immediately, but Android users have to expect.

Facebook Gives 'Events' a Defended Space with New Standalone App

When it comes to socializing and planning, nothing beats what Facebook has to offer. Only in all the Facebook dissonance, some things tend to get clouded upward, with people missing out on special events. Knowing how important events tin be, and how much people brand use of them to find nearby activities and whatnot, Facebook has decided to give Events a split space, in the grade of a dedicated app.

The Events app, from the looks of it, seems pretty important in what information technology does. Rather than beingness a barebones version of Events we see in the main Facebook app, the new offering takes things to a whole new level.

From Facebook'south press release on the affair:

Today nosotros're announcing Events from Facebook, a new app nosotros designed for event seekers who are passionate about keeping upwards with nearby events and finding things to do with their friends. Whether you're looking for something to attend this weekend or just wondering what's happening in your area, Events volition help become you in that location.

The mode how the app works is pretty simple. First of all yous download and install the app, sign-in using your credentials. After that you lot are presented with all the events your friends have created, the ones from the Pages you have joined, and lastly, go along track of the events y'all are already connected to.

Events from Facebook even has a brilliant recommendation engine that works according to the time of day. It even recommends you stuff based on your location and your interests. Information technology'southward actually pretty smart, and you lot'll probably finish upwardly finding something useful nearby.

If yous're looking for something to do this weekend or even right at present, you tin can easily scan event recommendations based on fourth dimension, location and your interests. Explore events happening where y'all are or in places y'all like to go using the interactive map. Y'all can too search for events in any city if you lot're planning ahead for a trip.

Users will exist able to keep runway of everything in the calendar. You volition besides exist able to see when yous are complimentary and at what time you are attention a detail consequence. Last but not the least, the events y'all interact with will bear witness up on your Facebook timeline so that others know likewise what y'all are upwards to. But yous tin can, of course, change that setting to keep things private.

The Events app from Facebook is available to download correct at present for iOS users. Android users can expect to download it sometime in the future, with Facebook having no official word on its precise release.

You can download Events by tapping on the link below: