“You’ll see us expand this testing soon.” Another reason Meta is making this change is probably TikTok, which has always had a built-in messaging feature. “We are testing the ability for people to access their Messenger inbox within the Facebook app,” Facebook head Tom Alison wrote in the post. With two billion daily active users, the blue app is finding it more and more challenging to find new users.īringing back the messaging functionality that was split into its own app back in 2014 should improve the experience for existing users who don’t want to switch apps every time they wish to send a message to a Facebook friend.

The announcement post highlights what’s next for Facebook, describing ways artificial intelligence will help improve its products, outlining upcoming new features for creators and monetization changes. Meta is adding Messenger back into the Facebook app

What to do? Read the news in the Meta Newsroom.

It took Meta eight years to realize its mistake but better late than never!

Why care? Messenger shouldn’t have been removed from Facebook in the first place.

What’s happening? Meta has officially begun reintegrating Messenger into the mobile Facebook app after removing messaging features from it years ago.

Messenger is coming back to the blue app | Image: Annie Spratt/ Unsplash TikTok has built-in messaging options, so of course Meta is now bringing back the Messenger features that it foolishly removed from the blue app eight years ago.

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