I know…it’s a lot of steps, but it’s worth it if you really want to see your feeds in chronological order. In iOS on your iPhone or iPad, you can do the same thing by selecting the menu icon at the bottom of the app and choosing More > See More> Feeds > Most Recent.
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You can manually change the Android and iOS mobile apps to show the Most Recent feed, instead of the default Top Stories Unfortunately, I still haven’t found a great way to switch the Android or iOS Facebook mobile apps over to Most Recent, but for those of you on Android, if you click the menu icon, you can always select “Most Recent” from your list of available feeds. In the meantime, using a bookmark and accessing the desktop version of Facebook through that bookmark will always show you Most Recent if it has the ?sk=h_chr parameter assigned to the end of it. Unfortunately, we have little control over what features Facebook gives us as options. NOTE: I know, I know…it’s not the ideal solution that we want where Facebook adds a setting to our profiles and asks us whether we prefer to view our feed as Top Stories or Most Recent. Success! By using this URL, Facebook automatically switches your feed to Most Recent instead of Top Stories! To make this more “permanent”, just set a bookmark in your browser to that URL or add a shortcut on your desktop and then just click that link or bookmark when you want to access Facebook.īy doing that, Facebook will always start in a mode where the most recent stories are shown, instead of top stories. With the ?sk parameter at the end of the URL, Facebook will now always display the most recent stories and will cause the banner to appear that indicates you’re viewing Most Recent. Instead of using the standard URL to access the site, try clicking this link instead: The key is in the URL you use to access Facebook. The good news, is that there is an easy way to adjust Facebook so that it ALWAYS shows you the most recent. In other words, we expect our feed to be presented to us in chronological order. We check-in multiple times each day, expecting that new things will have occurred since the last time we checked. Unfortunately, a lot of us think of our Facebook feed as a chronological feed of events that are happening. It also gives them more control over your feed, as opposed to Most Recent, which simply dictates that the posts will be show in chronological order. I’m sure that “Top Stories” probably garner Facebook more opportunities to learn about what is popular or what topics you are more likely to respond to…which can also lead to increased revenue for them. Facebook doesn't allow you to permanently set your feed to show Most Recent entries, but here's a workaround that can help. Unfortunately, there isn’t any way to permanently change this setting in your profile, an option that I feel Facebook has mistakenly overlooked. You can manually change your Facebook feed to display the most recent posts, but Facebook will change it back to Top Stories after about 24 hours.
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In the desktop view of Facebook, there is an option to change from Top Stories to Most Recent, but Facebook only maintains that setting for about 24 hours and then it automatically reverts back to Top Stories. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases when you buy something from those links.Īnother strange one is the fact that Facebook loves to show you the “Top Stories” that it thinks are important in your life and while that works for some, there are those of us who prefer to see our feeds in chronological order. I get commissions for purchases made through those links. Please note: Some of the links in my posts are affiliate links.