With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it's time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they're gone forever.

Today, Facebook is bringing its Messenger app to desktop. You can now access Messenger -- including unlimited and free group video calls -- on MacOS and Windows. The desktop app will sync across ...

Facebook is about to eliminate the message feature of its mobile app, pushing its users to install the company’s standalone app Messenger instead, TechCrunch reports. The company has begun sending out ...

About a decade ago, Facebook (before it was Meta) made the controversial decision to extricate Messenger from the Facebook app. If you wanted to continue using Messenger on a phone, you had to ...

Facebook has launched a new Messenger desktop app for Windows 10 that lets you text, voice, and video chat even if you are not using its website. The company has already made its new native desktop ...

If you use the desktop Messenger apps for Windows and Mac, you need to know that they're disappearing soon. Meta is discontinuing the apps starting Dec. 15, when you'll need to head to Facebook to ...

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Over the next few days, Facebook will stop allowing messaging in its main iPhone and Android apps, and force all their users around the world to download its standalone Messenger app. Facebook first ...

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Dropbox, Inc. on Monday announced that users of its Dropbox mobile apps can now share files — photos, videos, GIFs, and documents — directly inside the Facebook Messenger app of from the Dropbox app.