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Two iPhone Apps Reveal Meta's Facebook Unbundling Bet

Meta’s Forum turns Facebook Groups into a standalone iPhone app while keeping the same accounts, posts and social graph.

Key takeaways

  • On May 22, 2026, Meta’s latest iPhone release turned Facebook Groups into its own app — a small launch that points to a larger question about whether Facebook’...
  • The new app is called “Forum, a Facebook app,” and it arrives after Meta’s Instagram launched Instants earlier in May, according to 9to5Mac . Two iPhone apps i...
  • May 22: Facebook Groups breaks out of the main app
  • Forum is built around one of Facebook’s most persistent use cases: groups. The App Store description frames it as a place for “deeper discussions, real answers and...

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