You can now set up a 360 photo as your Facebook cover

Pretty neat.
 By 
Stan Schroeder
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Want to add a bit more pizzaz to your Facebook cover photos? You can now take a 360-degree photo and set it up as your cover photo, and you can do it all directly from your Facebook mobile app.

The new feature, available on both iOS and Android, lets you capture a 360-degree photo with your Facebook Camera.

The process is simple: Spin around as you take the photo and make sure you stay within the guiding lines on the screen. Choose the starting point and you're done.

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Once you've captured the photo, you can share it on your timeline or even use it as your cover photo, which looks like this:

Via Giphy

Facebook started rolling the new features worldwide on Wednesday, so they should already be available in your app if you update it to the latest version.

You can find more about 360-degree photos on Facebook here.

Stan Schroeder
Stan Schroeder
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Stan is a Senior Editor at Mashable, where he has worked since 2007. He's got more battery-powered gadgets and band t-shirts than you. He writes about the next groundbreaking thing. Typically, this is a phone, a coin, or a car. His ultimate goal is to know something about everything.

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