Five months after launching its Instant Articles feature, Facebook has extended the offer to iPhone users.
Users of the Facebook for iPhone app will now see a lightning bolt icon in the corner of some stories shared on their News Feed, indicating that those articles will load ten times faster when tapped.
The social network also announced that Instant Articles for Android will launch later this year, with a public beta available as of Tuesday.
Back in May, Facebook teamed up with nine news publishers to launch the feature, which allows them to publish articles directly on the network's new feeds for faster loading.
Today Facebook launches Instant Articles for iPhone – a beautiful new way to read articles in News Feed that is faster and more interactive than ever before. Starting today, everyone on iPhone can read thousands of Instant Articles from your favorite publishers every day. Look for the lightning bolt on the top right corner of some stories shared in News Feed. The lightning bolt indicates it's an Instant Article. When you tap the story, it loads ten times faster than a standard mobile web article and the reading experience is beautiful and interactive. Check out this short video to see what Instant Articles look like. We hope you love it as much as we do.Posted by Instant Articles on Monday, October 19, 2015
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