{"id":4387,"date":"2017-07-02T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T14:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2017-07-02T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T14:37:55","slug":"facebook-expands-find-wi-fi-feature-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/07\/02\/facebook-expands-find-wi-fi-feature-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook expands \u2018Find Wi-Fi\u2019 feature globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has expanded its \u201cFind Wi-Fi\u201d feature globally on both iOS and Android devices for its two billion users.<!--more-->The social networking giant had begun testing a \u201cFind Wi-Fi\u201d option last year on mobile only for iOS users in select countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re beginning to roll out \u2018Find Wi-Fi\u2019 everywhere in the world on iPhone and Android. We launched it in a handful of countries last year and found it\u2019s not only helpful for people who are travelling or on-the-go, but especially useful in areas where cellular data is scarce,\u201d Alex Himel, Engineering Director at Facebook, wrote in a blog post late Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind Wi-Fi\u2019 helps users locate available Wi-Fi hot spots nearby that businesses have shared with Facebook from their Page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo wherever you are, you can easily map the closest connections when your data connection is weak,\u201d the post added.<\/p>\n<p>To find Wi-Fi hotspots, open your Facebook app, click on the \u201cMore\u201d tab and then \u201cFind Wi-Fi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Once in the \u201cFind Wi-Fi\u201d tab, you may need to turn it on.<\/p>\n<p>Users can then browse the closest available hotspots on a map, and learn more about the businesses hosting them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture used for illustrated purposes alone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has expanded its \u201cFind Wi-Fi\u201d feature globally on both iOS and Android devices for its two billion users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}