The Beta version of Facebook Home has been updated and offers some new features. With this version, users can now control Facebook Home music from their lock screen.

The Facebook app is getting a makeover. If it is for the moment a beta tested by a voluntary group of users, it will allow those who chose the Facebook Home interface to control their music from the lock screen. It will be possible to manage services such as Spotify, Pandora or Play Music from home home interface. Whether this is an improvement for the mobile interface of Facebook, several manufacturers have already made this option in their overlay.

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In April, when there were rumors about the launch of a “Facebook Phone”, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new interface of the mobile social networking, Facebook called Home. This “overlay” was designed to facilitate application access to its most active users, but also to the Messenger service as well as Instagram.

The interface does not yet managed to attract crowds. The company claimed a million downloads in May, a non-negligible number that becomes yet when compared to the number of users of the mobile application.

At the time of the announcement of Facebook Home, the social network billion users had also launched the first phone equipped with the interface pre-installed. This is the First produced by HTC, already marketed in the United States. But its very low sales overseas have pushed the company to delay the output terminal in Europe. According to the news site The Verge high-tech, Facebook wants to improve its home interface first before leaving this model in other markets.

Also this phone specially designed to accommodate the interface, other models running Android have access to Facebook Home for free download on the Play Store. Among them, we find the HTC One, and One X One X +, but the Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4 and Samsung Galaxy Note II and the Google Nexus 4.