{"id":389185,"date":"2017-08-24T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/08\/23\/facebook-ios-app-360-degree-photos\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:42:12","slug":"facebook-ios-app-now-allows-users-to-take-360-degree-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/facebook-ios-app-now-allows-users-to-take-360-degree-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook iOS App Now Allows Users to Take 360-Degree Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s iOS app is today being updated with a new feature that will let users take 360-degree photos using the camera function directly within the Facebook app, reports <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/08\/23\/facebook-now-lets-you-take-360-photos-in-app-use-them-as-cover-photos\/\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2016\/10\/18\/facebook-ios-360-degree\/\">supported 360-degree images<\/a> for some time, but it previously required users to take a panoramic photo with their smartphone or use a separate app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/08\/facebook360photos-800x478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-583572\"\/><br \/>Now users can open the camera, choose the 360 Photo option, and then follow the on-screen instructions to create a panoramic image in the Facebook app.<\/p>\n<p>360-degree photos can be set as Cover Photos, and support tagging friends and zooming. The new 360-degree photo functionality is rolling out to iOS and Android users starting today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s iOS app is today being updated with a new feature that will let users take 360-degree photos using the camera function directly within the Facebook app, reports TechCrunch. Facebook has supported 360-degree images for some time, but it previously required users to take a panoramic photo with their smartphone or use a separate app. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":389186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-389185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}