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Facebook is discontinuing several services which track real-time location due to low usage, including features like Nearby Friends, location history and background location.

Meta has confirmed that it is deprecating Facebooks location-based features, such as Nearby Friends and weather updates, but it will continue to track your location.

Facebook is discontinuing some of its location-tracking features, like Nearby Friends, due to "low usage." The platform will delete any data associated with the features on August 1st, 2022.

While Meta is adding some nice enhancements on the WhatsApp side of its business, the company is sunsetting a few features from its Facebook app.

Facebook is also planning to discontinue location history, Weather alerts and background location features. Here's what we know so far.

Facebook’s Nearby Friends feature will be saying goodbye along with other location-based functionalities on the platform. Why though?

Facebook says that it is killing off two of its location-based features with Nearby Friends and Weather alerts set to be disabled after May 31.

Thus far, Facebook is only quietly announcing the sweeping data-minimization move via in-app prompts and emails to users.

Meta-owned Facebook announced to its users on Thursday that it would be discontinuing its Nearby Friends functionality.

FACEBOOK began alerting users Thursday that it is axing some features that amass data about users' whereabouts.The U.S. social media giant says that N