mention friends on facebook with an IOS device

By Kerby, 19 March, 2014

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello, I would like to know how to mention friends on facebook using my Iphone and the Facebook app. I tried using the at sign in front of the person's name and all that did was post the message with the at sign and the person's name included as typed instead of mentioning that person. I know how to tag people but I don't want to do that because it'll say at the end of the post that I'm with so and so which may not necessarily be true. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

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hello.get to th enlace

hello.

get to the place where you want the person's name
start typing it.
move your finger up from the top of the keyboard and you will find a list of names.
double tap the name you want.

that's it. You can remove the last name if you want to.

Tagging is the only to do it

Tagging is the only to do it with mobile, as far as I know.

Wonder if this works on the Mac?

Thanks for this tip Mary will see if it works on the Mac. I appreciate it.

Thanks

Thank you. I'll try that.

I don't think this will work

I don't think this will work on th emobiel site but you can try it on the regular site. I don't use this method but on my iOS device.

Take care.

the mac works however.

Hi. The reason I brought it to Fb's accessibility was because if I knew one Mary it was fine. but if i knew four the only name coming up would be, Mary Johnson, not Mary smith who I wanted. They admitted without admitting that they messed up, I don't think based on using the @ sighn that they fixed anything. Just something to keep your eye on.

How to do this with musician pages?

I have this question too, but for musician pages. On my computer, I can type the @ sign, start typing the name and just choose the one I want. But the other day, I was using my new iPhone 8 with a Braille notetaker as a display; I started typing the name of an artist I wanted to mention, but the artist's name/page didn't appear. All I got was one of my friends and some other names I didn't recognize, but not the musician I wanted. When I tried to continue typing to get to this artist's name, I wasn't able to do that because quicknav was turned back on. I had to go back and dictate the entire post. So the artist's name was in the post, but it didn't link to their page. How can this be done, if possible on the iPhone 8?