Facebook Launches Place Tips, Giving More Location-Based Info

Facebook recently announced a new feature — place tips — which surfaces richer content around your location.

This rolled out Thursday for iPhone users, and uses the phone’s location to show people interesting or popular places near them, based on friends’ activity. For instance, if you have both location and place tips turned on, and you’re near a business where several friends have checked in or uploaded photos, Facebook will show you this.

Place tips does not post anything to Facebook, just showing the person more location-based data on top of News Feed.