Facebook Classic View – Facebook Classic | Switch Back to Classic Facebook

Every Facebook account comes with a default setting. This default Facebook setting and view is called Facebook Classic View. This guide proffers a solution on how to go back to the default view in your account.

From time to time, Facebook sends its users a notification to update their mobile app to a better version. That notwithstanding, the notification is not a do or die affair.

You have the right to accept the suggestion about updating your current Facebook mobile app version to a better one, you also have the right to continue with the one you were using.

Unfortunately, some users hastily carry on the upgrade processes and end up regretting at the end. If you belong to this category of people then, carefully read on.

The Facebook Classic View

Of a truth, the Facebook social media platform go through series of evolution from time to time, new features and pluggings are launched into the site along the line.

The problem, therefore, is that when a feature is launched to the site, such features will not be seen in any of the versions that existed before the introduction of the said feature.

In order words, for anyone to be able to access such a feature, he/she has to upgrade to the newest version of the mobile app which is likely to come with the feature.

Just as it is always said that “it is easier to take a donkey to the brook but very difficult to force it to drink water from the brook. Some people, after upgrading and having a taste if the latest version of the Facebook app, they still prefer the initial one they were using.

The good news is that it is very possible to find your way back to your initial version, just stay patient, we are almost close to the end of the tunnel. Even while it is still possible to change now, you may not know the steps through which you can switch.

Facebook is currently allowing a large population of people to still switch back to the old version, which is the Facebook Classic View. This social company announced that a “Test Group”, will not be allowed to switch back once they have enabled this new model.

Facebook Classic

You’d agree with me that of all social media apps in the world, Facebook emerges one of the top platforms that work to make sure it provides its billions of users with amazing features.

Right now, desktop users are able to make use of the new design of the Facebook site. It is easier to use, less convoluted, and introduces new features, which include the dark mode.

Having known that you can switch back to the Facebook Classic View (old version) anytime you wish, let’s consider the steps through which you can switch from the new to the old version.

Head to the official Facebook site on your device via facebook.com.
Provide appropriately your Facebook account login details as you will be requested to.
Finally, click on the “Log In” button.

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This will redirect you to your Facebook account from where you will get to switch to the old Facebook version. Check the next part of this article if you have been successfully logged in already.

How to Switch Back to Facebook Classic View

Since Facebook has made it possible to return to a Facebook version anyone had upgraded from, you need to do ti now as no one knows when Facebook will decide to lock-up this escape route.

These two steps below are compiled in an easy to understand way for you to succeed in going back to your former version.

Click on the menu button ( a triangle arrow at the top of the page) on your Facebook homepage.
Select “Switch to Classic Facebook” from the drop-down menu.

Hurray! the next page welcomes you to the old version of the app you intended to go back to. Enjoy

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Paul Demaster