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” – ...

We were warned by Mark Zuckerberg last November, but now it’s really happening: Facebook has started notifying users that they will no longer be able to send or receive chat messages from within its ...

For years, Meta (then Facebook) wanted to unify Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It began implementing that plan by allowing Instagram users to talk to Facebook Messenger users three years ...

In a significant move towards enhancing user privacy and security, Facebook announced late last year that end-to-end encryption would become the default setting for all chats and calls on its popular ...

You checked your chat history but can't find the message you're looking for. You likely deleted it, but there are ways to retrieve the message. Here are a few solutions to find and retrieve deleted ...

Meta will soon remove a feature that lets you chat with Facebook friends on Instagram. Starting mid-December, the company will disconnect the cross-platform integration, which it added in 2020. It ...

Facebook annoyed and puzzled many people last year when it forced them to download its Messenger app for chats. Its reasons for doing so are now clearer: Messenger is becoming a beast of an app, with ...

Archived messages, a nifty feature of Facebook Messenger, is excellent for saving something you wish to revisit later or cherish for years to come. Safe to say, archived messages are the storehouse of ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...