Something to look forward to: Being able to message friends from within Facebook's mobile app used to be one of its better features, but the company removed this function almost nine years ago, ...

Of all the mistakes and confusing moves that Facebook has made over the years, one that still resonates to this day is the decision to spin Messenger off into its own app from the main Facebook app.

Facebook could bring Messenger back to its main app as part of its strategy to merge all of its chat services into one. Evidence of the change has been discovered in recent code. Facebook is yet to ...

Eight years after separating its Messenger service into a standalone app, and five years after removing messaging functionality completely from the central app, Facebook might be gearing up to ...

Facebook appears to be testing the integration of Messenger back into its core social media app. The messaging service's functionalities are limited only to sending and receiving messages for now.

Facebook has brought back the integration of SMS support into Messenger for Android. Users of the popular messaging service now have the option to send and receive SMS texts within Facebook’s chat app ...

After almost a decade, Facebook is looking at bringing Messenger back into the fold on smartphones. Facebook initially removed Messenger from its app in 2016, sending users who wanted to text to a ...

Facebook head Tom Alison said Tuesday that the company will expand the test soon as it looks for ways to integrate messaging features in the platform over the coming year. "Ultimately, we want it to ...

Meta is beginning the process of disconnecting the ability to have “cross-app chats” with your Instagram contacts via Facebook Messenger and vice-versa. Back in 2020, Meta – then “Facebook” – ...