How to Fix Facebook New Feed Not Updating Issue

Quick Tips

• Facebook feed depends on the People and Pages you follow.
• Meta’s algorithm changes the feed based on your browsing activities.
• Make sure to set your feed preferences for the best results.

Basic Fixes

• Make sure you have a stable internet connection (Mobile or Wifi).
• Check on your mobile data allowance.
• Restart the Router and disable the VPN.
• Check if Facebook is not working for anyone else.

Fix 1: Adjust Facebook’s Feed Preferences

Sometimes, your feed updates fine, but you continue to see old posts and updates, which gives the impression that the news feed is not updating. To fix that, you’ll need to adjust your news feed preferences for Facebook, and you’ll get the relevant most recent post at the top.

Step 1: Open Facebook, click on your profile photo, and select Settings & Privacy > Feed.

Step 2: Under Manage your Feed window, you can:

• Add People and Pages to Favorites so you don’t miss their updates.
• Snooze some people and pages so other people get more priority.
• Unfollow posts from specific people, groups, or pages to clear them off the feed.
• Reconnect with people and pages you had followed earlier.
• Suggest Facebook reduce Spam, Unoriginal, and Sensitive content to reduce more using the Reduce option.

The options remain the same on Mobile except that you tap on the Settings icon after tapping on your Profile image and then choose News Feed under Preferences.

Fix 2: Update & Reinstall Facebook App

At times, it’s because the app is outdated, and Facebook has updated the way it shows the feeds. It’s best to first try updating the app from the PlayStore or App Store. If that doesn’t work, you will need to uninstall and then reinstall it.

Fix 3: Try Facebook Lite App

Facebook offers a lite version of its app, which works well when you have slow or limited bandwidth available for iPhone and Android. If the original feed is taking too much time to load, the liter version might help you there.

Fix 4: Re-login to Facebook Account

You may try signing out of your Facebook account using the app on your mobile phone. This will not delete any cache or app data; it will only break the session link between your mobile and the Facebook servers.

From your Android or iPhone, you can sign out of the Facebook app, restart your mobile, and sign back in to the Facebook app, starting a new session.

Fix 5: Clear Cache and Data

Even if you have enough RAM and CPU power under the hood, it can help to clear cache memory and data of the Facebook app. If you don’t have enough, then this step can do wonders.

Step 1: Open Settings and tap on Installed Apps (or wherever you can find a list of all your apps).

Step 2: Search for Facebook here and open it.

Step 3: Tap on Clear data at the bottom of the screen and then tap on Clear cache, one by one.

Relaunch the Facebook app, and hopefully, the Facebook news feed should appear and load seamlessly again.