World largest social media app, Facebook, will no longer work on Blackberry devices, the company has announced.
As of March 31, BlackBerry users will have to perform a mandatory update for the Facebook for BlackBerry app, which will take away a number of features from the app, the web giant said.
“The current BlackBerry Facebook application will cease to work on BlackBerry smartphones running BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS versions 7.1 and earlier,” notes BlackBerry’s Support page.
BlackBerry explains that the native Facebook apps on Android and iOS use a private API not available for general use, and this will no longer be available to BlackBerry. BlackBerry users wishing to continue using Facebook can however move to the Web-based experience.
The Support page further lists some of the functionality that will be lost with the updated version of the app include BlackBerry 10 Facebook contact synchronisation, which will no longer synchronise with the on-device Contacts app; BlackBerry Hub integration, messages/ chat, posts, friend requests, games, invites and other notifications will no longer show as entries in BlackBerry Hub.
Additionally, BlackBerry 10 users will no longer have the ability to share images or videos directly to Facebook using the Share icon.
