Facebook's New Layout for Android and iOS Highlights Most-Liked Photos

Facebook on Thursday has started rolling out a new layout
for the Photos section on its Android and iOS apps, and has
also added a new 'Uploads' tab.
The new design in the Facebook app (first reported by
Techcrunch), now shows a new collage-style design in the
Photos section and in the new Uploads tab, enlarging the
most-liked images among them. Due to the automatic
selection method that highlights these images based on the
number of likes, there is no way for the user to un-highlight
these photos.
As we mentioned, Facebook has also included a new
'Uploads' tab that shows all the user's uploaded photos at
one place unlike Albums, where images are along with all
other images in different folders. Additionally, the cover
photo thumbnail for each folder is now bigger as well in
Albums.
The feature is now rolling out to users without an app
update, says Facebook via Techcrunch. The report includes
that Facebook has no plans of bringing this feature to the
Web layout.
Last month, Facebook had updated the News Feed to show
more timely stories from Friends and Pages. One part of the
update had included the way Facebook will show timely
content higher-up in the News Feed based on trending
topics. It means that when a friend or connected Page posts
about something that is currently a hot topic of
conversation on Facebook, it will more likely appear higher
up in News Feed.
The second part of the update for News Feed was based on
the liking or commenting on a post. With the update, the
company had suggested that it will "begin looking at when
people are choosing to like, comment and share."
So, "if people are engaging with the post right after it is
posted, and not as much a few hours later, this suggests
that the post was most interesting at the time it was posted,
but potentially less interesting at a later date. Based on this
signal it is more likely to appear higher in News Feed earlier
on and lower at a later date."