Facebook Tries Salvaging Home With Redesign That Adds Familiar Notifications And Widgets To Lockscreen

Facebook’s Home has been a bit of a flop, with few users willing to so drastically change the face of their phone. Today Facebook launched a redesign that makes Home more familiar to a traditional lockscreen by overlaying phone and Facebook notifications, a clock, and weather info on top of Cover Feed and giving users more customization options. The hope is by making Home seem like less of a shock, more users will adopt it.

The new version of Home shows time, weather, and notifications overlaid on your lockscreen for instant viewing. You can swipe left to view the Cover Feed of full-screen photos and posts. A shortcut to bring up Cover Feed has been added to the Home launcher, and you can choose a wallpaper as well.

Screenshots of the new version of Home rolling out on Android today are below. We’ll have more analysis shortly.

Source: TechCrunch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/c3cqu68JSiw/