Happy holidays to you: photos and comments are here!

Dec 20th

We’ve been promising this all year and really hustled to get it out for the holidays. So, without further ado, our holiday gift to you: foursquare just became more useful and social with the addition of photos and comments. (It’s in the app store now! You can also see these new features on foursquare.com)

You’ve been requesting these features for months, and there are some cool aspects that you’ll notice right away:

  • Comments make meeting up and exploring so much easier. Improve your day by telling a friend that you’re around the corner and they should swing by. And getting a last-minute comment reminding you to order the best dish saves your meal. (You can even comment on the website and from check-in links posted to Facebook and Twitter!)
  • Tips with photos changes everything. See dishes before ordering them, figure out if a venue looks fun, or easily identify a hard-to-find spot. More info = better exploration.
  • The past comes to life. You can visit your history page on foursquare.com to see all the places you’ve been, with photos and comments preserved. Remembering is more fun than ever.

We’ve had a ton of fun testing this. A couple notes:

  • Be sure your iPhone has foursquare push notifications turned on so you’ll know when your friends leave you a comment.
  • Photos on check-ins are only visible to your friends (and the networks you share to, like Facebook and Twitter). Tip and venue photos are open to the community. And, as you’d expect, comments are only visible to your friends.

A few of our partners have done an amazing job getting the new photos feature integrated for today. Photos from Instagram pushed to foursquare will now be check-ins with photos (rather than just check-ins). Sightings on Foodspotting will be check-ins with your food photos. And picplz is the first service to allow check-in photos on both iPhone and Android. Soon to follow: we’ve got the new foursquare for Android coming later this week, WebOS (thanks to @zhephree) and BlackBerry in January, and the rest of the major platforms in early 2011. And the API will be ready for all developers later this week!

There are a couple features we weren’t able to fit in for this release but we’re working to launch soon. These include sharing photos (to Facebook and Flickr), an easier way to keep track of all the comments you’re getting, and a more useful place to store all your old photos (right now, it’s all on that history page). Stay tuned for those!

In the meantime, enjoy photos and comments, and have fun out there!

Posted in Blog Foursquare iPhone

96 Comments

  • http://twitter.com/Tony_Time Tony Anderson

    Curse you iPhone!

  • http://nokiadna.com Micky

    Brilliant news!

  • McGrot

    Need that for my Xperia X10 Mini!!!! =()

  • http://www.symbiantweet.com/ Fakhre

    Good News!

  • fjr4bama

    Thanks for including the WebOS in this – we’re usually the left-outs who have to just watch while the others play!

  • fjr4bama

    Thanks for including the WebOS in this – we’re usually the left-outs who have to just watch while the others play!

  • http://twitter.com/pabloafain Pablo Alejandro Fain

    Awesome!!! Happy Christmas!!!

  • http://twitter.com/thejamesjones James RC Jones

    This is a great add…. I look forward to the next release with photo sharing on facebook… 4sqFTW!

  • http://www.whitezine.com Joseph

    Finally :) You guys rocks

  • http://twitter.com/ArnoldvSabben Nol

    Awesome!!! But an update means adjustments to my master thesis about Foursquare…..more work ;)

  • http://twitter.com/ArnoldvSabben Nol

    Awesome!!! But an update means adjustments to my master thesis about Foursquare…..more work ;)

  • http://twitter.com/nicolehering Nicole Hering

    I LOVE YOU FOURSQUARE.

  • http://olof.me Olof

    So this won’t be available for the iPhone for another two months or so? Not much of a holiday gift =/

  • T Farhanmaulana

    need that for my xperia x8….please…….

  • http://twitter.com/ChrisAliaga Chris Aliaga

    Great news, awesome!
    Now all I need is a smartphone..

  • http://twitter.com/mamaier262 Michael Maier

    @Foursquare you’re too good to us…#happyholidays #nerd

  • http://twitter.com/critic M-D November

    “Be sure your iPhone has foursquare push notifications turned on so you’ll know when your friends leave you a comment.”

    Does this mean the long standing issue with the push notifications (i.e. no sound) has been fixed?

  • http://twitter.com/Shoegh88 Stefan Høegh-Neumann

    Damna, I can’t find the update in the Danish iTunes Store :(

  • http://twitter.com/helloneecha Nichole

    Too bad this had to be released AFTER my paper on location-based social apps was due. :( #digent

  • Calvinloh_keat

    waiting for it….

  • Sanders Yvette

    Sounds great..

  • Anonymous

    masters thesis? cool! tell us more.

  • http://twitter.com/cvvh Claudita

    BB ?

  • http://pegshot.com/holaphil Phil Thomas Di Giulio

    Nice work all! About time w/ the photos :) For real though, that history feature is dope.

  • http://pegshot.com/holaphil Phil Thomas Di Giulio

    Nice work all! About time w/ the photos :) For real though, that history feature is dope.

  • Anonymous

    it’s live now in the app store! v2.2

  • Anonymous

    this is by design, not a bug. with average use, your phone would be buzzing/making sound an awful lot…

  • Anonymous

    in the new year! soon!

  • http://twitter.com/BillDrew4 Bill Drew

    What about Balckberry?

  • http://www.sabinedufaux.com/ sdufaux

    Finally a history page for previous trip. That was definitely missing!

  • Katy Zack

    This is awesome. Can’t wait until comments come to Android later this week!

  • http://www.vaibhavgera.com Vaibhav Gera

    When can we expect the new release for Symbian Platform.. (S60 v3)

  • Anonymous

    coming soon!

  • http://www.justinhamlin.com Justin Hamlin

    Can’t wait. Now if only you guys would fix your excuse for GPS location, we would be in business.

  • Romain

    Will you publish it somewhere when you’ll have finished it? Would be cool!

  • http://twitter.com/xPatriicK Patrick K. / xPatriicK

    It works with picplz.. does it mean when I use picplz to check in with a picture (on android) the picture will be shown on foursquare (web) too?

  • http://twitter.com/xPatriicK Patrick K. / xPatriicK

    It works with picplz.. does it mean when I use picplz to check in with a picture (on android) the picture will be shown on foursquare (web) too?

  • http://twitter.com/park Park

    This is awesome! But I’m a little confused on how the photos work. Can you guys post a more in-depth explanation of who can see which types of photo uploads (check-in photo vs. venue photo, I guess).

    Also, should all the photos I’ve already posted to foursquare using instagram show up, or will it only be new ones from this point forward?

  • http://twitter.com/xPatriicK Patrick K. / xPatriicK
  • FTZ^^

    Great update!!! good work! looks nice

  • http://twitter.com/ArnoldvSabben Nol

    Foursquare thesis is about: Social media mediated ordering. Ordering in life and business, you can thing about questions like: what is it why you use foursquare, what is it that you keep participate in foursquare, and what does it do for you? These questions are linked to a ”city marketing” and ”location-based service/marketing” view. At the end it would be nice to have a conceptual model, that’s gives you a result why foursquare works. But than it would be already summer ;)

    @Romain: Sure! Probably early summer 2011

  • Anonymous

    we’ve had the history page since Jan 2009 ;) just with photos and comments now!

  • Anonymous

    the update to the API will happen later this week, but it’s up to the third party app developer to build, so probably by early 2011!

  • http://www.vaibhavgera.com Vaibhav Gera

    but ovi store mentions App developer as foursquare.

  • Anonymous

    we only build the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android apps in-house! the others are all built by third-party developers :)

  • http://www.vaibhavgera.com Vaibhav Gera

    just wish foursquare start thinking about symbian users also n shift a lil attention to India n introduce some India specific badges/features , all special badges as of now are US specific only. thanks a lot!

  • http://stevenweathers.com Steven

    Can’t wait for the Android updated Foursquare app!

  • http://zachcole.com Zach Cole

    So excited to test this out. And I’m very pleased to here that there is integration with picplz. I’ve been loving that Android app. Nice!

  • Anonymous

    See here:

    http://support.foursquare.com/entries/364506-who-can-see-my-photos

    (for questions about features, etc. you can always search our FAQ at support.foursquare.com)

    Only photos from now on that you send to foursquare via instagram will show up.

  • http://www.mhandy1.tumblr.com Mike Handy

    why cant I share photos to twitter.. come a twit-pic integration would be simple!

  • http://joshlloyd.tumblr.com jlloyd

    You guys got it all wrong. It’s Android, THEN iPhone! Haha

    Actually you didn’t really mention that this update was specifically for the iphone till the bottom of the post. I got all excited….only to find out it’s only iPhone. blaaaaah

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  • http://twitter.com/gadgetsorus Gadgetso’r'us™

    i still dont get update prompts from market. Dont even get the new version after scanning the code from this post.

  • http://twitter.com/mikeleotta Mike Leotta

    Love the new features! A couple comments: 1) Will there be a way to add captions to photos? It would be nice to be able to describe what the photo is. 2) I don’t see a way to connect tips to photos. If my tip is “Try the monster burger!” it would nice to be able to connect that tip to said monster burger.

  • Anonymous

    we launched with a v1 of photos+comments. updates coming soon, of course!

  • http://twitter.com/mikeleotta Mike Leotta

    Great! Looking forward to the updates. Thanks for the reply.

  • http://blog.ijaron.com iJaron

    What about posting photos to tumblr? I for one would LOVE that (:

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    @Foursquare From a developer standpoint, why does it take longer to deploy to Blackberry anyway?

  • Yohana

    what about BB?

  • http://twitter.com/iffam_org Iffam

    Good job,but you need to add share photos & comments to wordpress & posterous.com

  • Anonymous

    That is so cool ! Thank you for that sweet christmas gift ;)

  • Anonymous

    coming early in the new year!

  • Mike Dragon

    The Green Dragon LIKES: You guys at Foursquare are Awesome! Thanks for getting out the Photos & Comments app just in time for Christmas. Happy Holidays, partners! (Even though I moved to Hawaii 5 yrs ago, you just can’t take the Texan out of this good ol’ boy.)

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    Thanks for the update photos posts to @tumblr would be a dream

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    either search for “foursquare” or go to your app store application on your phone and download the update!

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    I downloaded the new Foursquare update (photos and comments) for my HTC Incredible, and now it no longer updates my Facebook or Twitter account. I have uninstalled and reinstalled both the application and the update. I have also disconnected and reconnected both Facebook and Twitter accounts before and after the reinstall, and still they do not show up.

    Anyone else having this issue, and is there a resource I can connect with for help? I tried searching the FAQ forums, but found no answers. Thanks!

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    cool, but when are you going to release those on Blackberry and make Win Phone 7 able to check where location name containts non-English character (have you seen feedback on WinPhone7 marketplace)?

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    Great…

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    so how do i get foursquare on my mobile phone which is an lg view?

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