Meta Move discontinued and how to make your users move away from Quest headsets

[elafynoh]

The Meta Move app will be discontinued after March, 31, 2025 with the reason noted:

"Move currently relies on legacy technology, which limits our ability to introduce new innovations for Quest users. This transition will allow us to deliver more advanced and exciting features to enhance the Quest experience."

Seriously Meta ? If you remove this app and take away features from your product without providing any other option it will make your product less useful. Move is an important tool, which i personaly use every day. And the reason of the curren app using "legacy technology" does not seem very logical to me either, especially because this would imply that there must be a "non-legacy technology" exising, that could be used instead.

[FunKing]

Just out of curiosity: did you try to start the app via ADB or Game Optimizer? Or the app was removed on your headset(by yourself or by Meta)?

[oculusness]

@FunKing  I've not actually been able to try this yet as I'm working away from home for a few days. The icon for it disappeared after a recent update.

Ultimately, meta will delete it completely from the headsets so it seems like a good idea to have a backup available.

[007x007]

Sure. Check PM. For safety reason I'll not paste it publicly 🙂

[oculusness]

@007x007  I've just had a visitation from the software fairy. Many thanks.

[007x007]

I found a way. Move is immediately disabled when we go to the settings window (from the settings icon or quick settings). The solution is very simple:
If someone uses link cable and automatic connection is disabled (I disabled it), then I have to click quick settings to go to the link menu and move is turned off. So I open 2 windows: move and settings and at that moment I enable Move. It remains enabled.

Update info:

Quest FW disables Move after a few hours, so you have to re-enable it. No big deal. You can always enable it before playing.

[onestrokeimdone]

Is there any way around having to turn the settings on in move after every reboot? Also I turned off updates to keep move. Hopefully we can get something to replace move so I can go back to regular updates although at this point it seems like meta is making the headset worse with every update.

[oculusness]

I just fired up the Quest Games Optimizer app and the Move app is still showing up in the list of available apps. I'm on V77 PTC.

[007x007]

No 😞 Meta disable it everytime when You go to settings and periodically (in few hours interval).