See your Facebook 2021 highlights with new ‘Year in Review’ feature

META has started rolling out a “Year in Review” feature on Facebook, letting users see and share their key moments of 2021.

The tech giant formerly known as Facebook dropped the nostalgia-inducing feature on Thursday and plans to keep it live until December 30.

AlamyMeta has rolled out a new year-end feature on Facebook[/caption]

The throwback feature comes in the form of a personalized “Year Together” card and will be available globally in the next few days on both Android and iOS apps.

The card is essentially a compilation reel that highlights the ‘friends, feelings, places, and people’ Facebook users focused most on in 2021.

In true social media fashion, users can share their custom card on their feed for others to view, “like”, or comment under.

The feature will automatically suggest posts and content the user has shared on Facebook throughout the year for the card.

However, the card is completely customizable so users have the option of overriding the automatic suggestions and selecting their preferred images or content instead.

In addition to the creative autonomy Facebook users have, they also have control over who the content gets shared with.

Meta’s initiative to help users relive their best moments of 2021 is not limited to just Facebook.

The conglomerate rolled out a similar wrap-up feature for Instagram, which includes a custom end-of-year “Playback” video that can be shared with Instagram Stories.

In Instagram’s case, though, a user must have shared at least three stories on their account throughout 2021, or have Stories Archive turned on to be eligible for the feature.

The company likely has high hopes for the new initiatives across both platforms as a similar “On This Day” feature has been available on Facebook for more than six years.

The recent launch of end-of-year reviews across social media apps, which includes the likes of Reddit and Snapchat, has become increasingly popular in 2021.

This is in part due to the success Spotify’s annual Wrapped feature, which was launched in 2015, has garnered.

AlamyFacebook’s new feature will allow users to share highlights of their year[/caption]

In other news, Samsung is reportedly killing off its beloved Note smartphone after more than a decade.

Apple has announced that it will let customers fix their own iPhones for the first time starting next year.

And the UK is fighting an epidemic of hack attacks targeting consumers and businesses, according to officials.