Facebook is going after the SMS text messaging business, opening up its Facebook Messenger app to a broader set of users. Facebook Messenger (for Android) in certain regions now allows people with no ...

Facebook likes to get its way — even if that means forcing users to download spin-off apps or use new features. Just about a week after the social network reintroduced the option to make Messenger the ...

A new Facebook Messenger feature has rendered the stock text messaging app on my Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone useless. Facebook is testing a way to move your SMS messages into its own Messenger app, ...

Remember when you used to be able to send SMS text messages with the Facebook messenger app, but then it mysteriously vanished never to be heard from again? Well, it looks like Facebook is hellbent on ...

We have some bad news for those of you who have been using Facebook Messenger as your SMS app of choice. Meta is getting ready to ditch SMS support in Facebook Messenger, which will happen next month.

Facebook Messenger is increasingly a good citizen of the Play Store by adopting the latest Android features and having a Material design. Now, after a few weeks of testing, Facebook has officially ...

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Surround and conquer is Facebook’s new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook Messenger for Android. By ...

Bug in Windows Phone OS allows a received SMS, Facebook, or Windows Live Messenger message to shut down the device and disable the Messaging Hub. Bug in Windows Phone OS allows a received SMS, ...

Facebook says it’s testing a way for users to receive, read and respond to their SMS-based conversations in its Messenger application for mobile devices. The feature, which would be optional if ...