Meta Brings Messenger Chats Back to the Facebook App

Facebook guardian Meta is testing the potential to entry Messenger chats through the Facebook app once more. The function was beforehand accessible in the Facebook app, however the firm moved chats to the standalone messenger app in 2014. It additionally eliminated the function from the cell web site, in 2016 so as to push customers to use the Messenger app. Meta says it’ll lengthen the Messenger inbox testing to extra customers quickly. The announcement comes weeks after the firm up to date Messenger’s end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) chats with a number of new options and enhancements.

Meta in a latest weblog put up introduced that it’s bringing again the message inbox function to the Facebook app. The platform has already began testing the function with some customers and can let customers share content material by way of messages on Facebook with out having to change to one other app. The firm is planning to broaden testing to extra customers. Over 140 billion messages are despatched throughout the firm’s messaging apps every single day, in accordance to Meta. It additionally provides that the personal sharing of Reels has additionally grown on the platform.

Additionally, Meta has additionally launched group chats to some Facebook Groups, letting customers join extra deeply in real-time. The agency says that customers making an attempt group chats throughout Facebook and Messenger elevated by 50 p.c final December.

Earlier this 12 months, Facebook up to date Messenger’s end-to-encrypted (E2EE) chats with a number of options and enhancements. It has rolled out options like personalised chat themes, customised chat emoji and reactions, group profile images, hyperlink previews, energetic standing, and help for chat bubbles on Android. End-to-end encrypted chats acquired an additional layer of safety and safety to defend the contents and calls of a chat from third-party entry.

Facebook has been providing opt-in E2EE chat help for years, however the firm has began increasing the potential to encrypt chats by default to extra Messenger customers. E2EE conversations can solely be accessed by the sender and the receiver, and no third social gathering, not even Facebook itself, can entry the messages despatched by customers, in accordance to the firm.