Meta is testing two features that combine Facebook and Instagram extra intently collectively. On Monday, the corporate started rolling out a brand new interface on Android, iOS and on the internet for switching between accounts. Provided you’ve added your Facebook and Instagram credentials to the identical Accounts Center, you should utilize the characteristic to modify between the 2 apps with out navigating to your cellphone’s dwelling display, multitasking menu or app drawer. The interface additionally permits you to see a depend of all of your notifications in a single place.

At the identical time, Meta is introducing a redesigned login and onboarding expertise on Android and iOS. If you’re new to the corporate’s social networks, you possibly can create one account after which use it to create further ones. For those that have already got each Facebook and Instagram accounts, it’s now attainable to make use of the login data related to one app to entry the opposite – although you first want so as to add them to the identical Accounts Center.

Meta will notify you each time you utilize an present account to create a brand new one otherwise you add an account to the Accounts Center. Additionally, security measures like two-factor authentication will nonetheless work, stopping, for example, somebody from utilizing your Instagram credentials to entry your Facebook account.

While the brand new options are “currently limited to Facebook and Instagram,” Meta notes it would “continue to explore how to improve connected experiences across all of our technologies.” They arrive following the and a latest downturn in for the corporate.