Tag: Messenger

February 9, 2021

Facebook has added some new safety and control options to Messenger to coincide with Safer Internet Day, giving users more ways to easily manage who can contact them through the app. As you can see in the video clip, in […]

August 26, 2020

Facebook’s Messenger Rooms, a group chat feature that allows you to connect up to 50 people in a video call, got an overhaul on mobile. Now, users can create, edit and manage their Rooms, and well as share and discover […]

February 28, 2020

Facebook Messenger is getting even simpler with the removal of the Discover tab, which was an attempt from the social network to inject its ill-fated chatbot platform into its private messaging app. The change was first announced in August of […]

April 12, 2019

Sometimes, you make a decision, and years later you look back upon that moment and think: Wait, why the hell did I do that? Now, Facebook appears to be experiencing something of the sort. According to app researcher Jane Manchun […]

March 28, 2017

Facebook Messenger is rolling out Live Location, a feature that lets users share where they are in real-time with one or more friends for up to 60 minutes. By turning on Live Location in Messenger for iOS or Android, whomever […]

January 3, 2017

This New Year, WhatsApp was not an option for many people to send greetings to their friends and family. To add to their woes, alternative messenger apps were also not easy to find. WhatsApp stopped working on a range of […]

December 20, 2016

Facebook Messenger is to begin offering group video calls to users, the social network has announced. The company said the feature has been their ‘most requested ever’ and will enable up to six people at once to chat with one […]

November 14, 2016

Facebook is continuing on its quest to make Messenger as feature-packed and comprehensive as it possibly can, and the latest addition to the versatile messaging app is an option to join public chat rooms, something we saw in leaked code […]

October 5, 2016

Your Facebook Messenger chats can now be secure from prying eyes — with a few caveats. Facebook began implementing end-to-end encryption to all of its 900 million Messenger users earlier this year, and that roll-out has finished, the company told […]

June 6, 2016

Facebook and Facebook Messenger have been going their separate ways as apps for quite some time now, though it’s still possible to chat through a mobile browser if you don’t want to install Messenger. Now that option is about to […]

March 29, 2016

It looks like Facebook is working on a bunch of new features for its Messenger app, including the ability to pay for things in-store right through the app. While Messenger already lets you send money to friends, source code dug […]

February 16, 2016

So you find yourself at a concert and your favorite song is about to come in. You want to make a video call and share the awesomeness with your friends who couldn’t come over. You know how this goes, right? […]

November 6, 2015

Facebook’s Messenger app has taken on a life of its own ever since the social network giant made an unpopular move last year and chiselled it out from the main Facebook experience. Even though this meant friends had to use […]

July 17, 2015

In June, Facebook announced that it no longer required Messenger users to have a Facebook account. This was only available to those in Canada, the United States, Peru, and Venezuela, however. But now, the social networking company has opened it […]

April 9, 2015

Facebook today launched Facebook Messenger on the web. If this sounds confusing, that’s because it is: While Messenger is already available on the company’s main facebook.com website as Facebook Chat, the company is now offering a standalone app over at […]

March 26, 2015

Facebook is positioning its Messenger app as a way to improve communications between online businesses and their customers. At today’s Facebook F8 conference in San Francisco, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company wants to make Messenger a way to […]