6 Quick Ways to Solve Facebook Not Responding Problem on iPhone/Android

April 06, 2019

Have you ever come across some Facebook errors such as Facebook not responding, Facebook down outage while you are using Facebook App on your mobile phone? Facebook is an essential tool for people to reach the world today and we don't hope that any error or bug would occur frequently. In this blog, we are going to teach you some ways to deal with a common situation - Facebook not responding on iPhone/Android properly.

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Way 1. Relaunch Facebook App

The Facebook data getting corrupted suddenly is a direct reason that causes Facebook not responding situation. The simplest way to fix it is to close the Facebook App and relaunch it again.

Way 2. Restart Your iPhone/Android

If you have used your mobile phone for a long period, the performance would slow down because your device has to keep storing cache data and following the command released by several applications as well as the system itself. So it is easy to result in Facebook not responding error.

By restarting your iPhone/Android can let the device to take a rest and shut down some unnecessary running programs in the background. Then you can relaunch Facebook and run it fluently.

Way 3. Change to A Faster Network Connection

Facebook fails to give you a response because it can't load anything with a bad network connection. When you get the notice like "timed out" or "no internet connection", you should check the network immediately. Try to switch to a faster Wi-Fi or reconnect to the mobile data can deal with the problem easily.

Way 4. Clean up Device Storage

When your device has insufficient storage, Facebook not responding situation will also appear. First check the internal storage space left your your mobile. Both iPhone and Android users can reach by going to Settings > About > Storage (the title can be slightly different).

If you have almost used up the space, Facebook not responding can easily occur and sometimes the Facebook App may even get crashed. So you need to free up the storage regularly to make sure there has enough space. You can delete some useless old files, seldom-used applications, cache data, and browsing history.

Way 5. Keep Facebook App Up-to-date

Facebook would keep evolving to enhance its UI, improve functionality, and fix bugs for providing the best service to users around the globe. Therefore, keep Facebook App up-to-date can avoid many errors or bugs from happening.

When you find Facebook App not responding, check whether you have updated the app to the latest version. Users can simply go to App Store or Google Play Store to update Facebook manually. When a new Facebook version comes out, the app will also notice you to update automatically, and turning on automatic update is also available.

On iPhone, direct to Settings > iTunes & App Stores to enable "Updates" under "Automatic Downloads" section.

On Android, go to Settings > General, and simple toggle "Auto-update Apps" on.

Way 6. Update iOS/Android System

Only keeping Facebook updated is not a rational choice because it would also cause incompatibility if you always use the old iOS/Android system. So you should also keep the system up-to-date when you realize that Facebook App runs much slower than ever before and even the Facebook not responding issue appears.

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Published on April 6, 2019

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