Meta announced a series News based on your Account Center, where the company tries to exert some control between the different accounts (Facebook and Instagram for now) you register on their service. Like them, in these social networks it will be easier to divide your personality into several accounts.

First, the company announced a new way to show us our associated Facebook and Instagram accounts while also making it easy to switch accounts. create accounts associated with other accounts. That is, the same login where you can have several profiles on Facebook or Instagram.

Quick account switching

The first innovation announced by Meta: a new account switcher it will replace the current selector that appears when clicking the arrow icon on both Facebook and Instagram.

This window takes a new design and now combines information from both apps. associated accounts and the number of pending notifications for each. This way, you can also check your Instagram accounts from your Facebook and jump to one of them with a few taps to read pending notifications.

create new accounts

The new account switcher includes a shortcut to: create a new associated account, so they are bound to the same login and security (i.e. same user, password, and possible two-step verification configuration). This was already possible on Instagram, but not on Facebook unless we were talking about a Page/Company account.

The process is also pretty simple, basically because we will only have to press the new account button when we already have an account when the session starts. linked account inherits privacy protections from parent account and also Meta says it will be possible to configure exactly which account is the main account and which can be used to log into which.

Meta, these innovations Testing on Android and iOSglobally, meaning it will appear to a random number of users in the coming weeks and months, and – if all goes well – it will expand to all users at some point.

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