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By clueing you in on whether someone's phone is just about to die, you've at least got a better idea as to what's going on when the updates go silent.
On Friday, Facebook began testing a new way to roll out updates to Android devices called silent updates, which downloads the update in the background over WiFi and then notifies the user to install it.
According to InsideFacebook, some users who received the silent update said the app notified them repeatedly until they installed the app.
If noise estimation only be updated in the silent segment, the delay may be as long as 2 s.
It would seem that Facebook's first run on "silent updates" went relatively well.
Mac and Linux users will likely get silent updates in the next version.
Facebook says the silent updates help "make sure everyone is using the best version of our app".
This silent updates project for Firefox has been in the works for a long time (at one point it was promised to arrive with version 10).
Silent updates to the browser is now par for the course in modern browsers like Firefox and Chrome, as Microsoft points out.
Now thanks to silent updates, it can meddle with its most popular app, Facebook for Android, which had 192 million monthly users at the end of December.
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