How to Enjoy Facebook on Your iPhone, Problem Free

By Conner Carey Mon, 11/02/2015

How to Enjoy Facebook on Your iPhone, Problem Free

If Facebook is draining your battery, gobbling up your storage by caching huge amounts of data, or otherwise causing problems on your iPhone, you can delete the app and create a Home screen icon for the website instead.

To do this, open Safari and log in to Facebook. Tap the Share icon.

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Select Add to Home Screen. A Facebook icon will appear on your Home Screen and you can use that to browse Facebook anytime you like.

  

It even looks the same as the Facebook app icon:

Now you can delete the Facebook app by pressing and holding the app icon until it jiggles, tapping the 'x' in the corner, and then pressing the Home button once. 

 

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Topics

How-To
Apps
Safari
Apple Apps
Web Browsers
Third-Party Apps
Facebook
Battery
Social Networking

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Conner Carey

Conner Carey's writing can be found at conpoet.com. She is currently writing a book, creating lots of content, and writing poetry via @conpoet on Instagram. She lives in an RV full-time with her mom, Jan and dog, Jodi as they slow-travel around the country.