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Facebook forces third-party clients Swipe and Simple Social off the Play Store

Facebook forces third-party clients Swipe and Simple Social off the Play Store

April 19, 2021
The Google Play Store is home to several third-party Facebook clients that let users access the social media platform on their phones. The clients offer a faster, lighter, and better-designed interface than the social media company's own apps for Android, and as a result, they've amassed a large user base over the years. But Facebook...
XDA Basics: How to Delete or Deactivate your Facebook account

XDA Basics: How to Delete or Deactivate your Facebook account

April 8, 2021
In the wake of the massive data breach at Facebook which exposed the personal details of 533 million users, you may be thinking once again about how to delete your Facebook account. We all go through these periods when we think that Mark Zuckerberg knows more about us than is healthy. But we dismiss the...
Facebook limits Messenger and Instagram functionality in Europe

Facebook limits Messenger and Instagram functionality in Europe

December 17, 2020
Facebook has temporarily removed some functionality from its Messenger and Instagram offerings, at least for European users. The move is to give the company time to make changes in order to comply with changes to EU privacy regulations, which are currently being enforced by member nations. Users firing up their apps in the region are being...
Facebook Messenger and Instagram add BTS theme and Watch Together feature

Facebook Messenger and Instagram add BTS theme and Watch Together feature

November 19, 2020
Facebook Messenger and Instagram have extended the scope of their newly joined-up messaging service with some new features, including one involving South Korean boy-band sensation BTS (for our regular readers, that’s the band providing the song for the current global Samsung Galaxy S20 FE advertisement). First up, according to Facebook’s newsroom, (if you’re just here to...
Here’s how to enable custom reactions in Facebook Messenger right now

Here’s how to enable custom reactions in Facebook Messenger right now

October 14, 2020
Facebook is known for testing new features with users all the time. Some are cool and useful, however, many are often held behind a barrier of exclusivity, with some people seemingly getting whatever the new feature is and many more not. One such feature is custom reactions, which Facebook said is coming to the Messenger...
Facebook Messenger redesigns its logo, adds more customization features

Facebook Messenger redesigns its logo, adds more customization features

October 13, 2020
Facebook Messenger has an all-new logo, and it’s also gaining several new customization features, including chat themes and a vanish mode. The new Messenger logo adopts the gradient design seen in the Instagram logo, going from Facebook’s patented solid blue to a blue-to-pink. According to Facebook’s Messenger VP Stan Chudnovsky, the new logo is meant to...
[Update: Rolling Out] Facebook merges Messenger and Instagram chats on Android and iOS

[Update: Rolling Out] Facebook merges Messenger and Instagram chats on Android and iOS

September 30, 2020
Back in January last year, we learned that Facebook's co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, planned to unify the infrastructure of all three of the company's messaging services — WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger. Even though reports from late last year suggested that the US Federal Trade Commission was planning on an injunction against Facebook's interoperability...
Facebook adds a forwarding limit in Messenger to curb misinformation

Facebook adds a forwarding limit in Messenger to curb misinformation

September 3, 2020
Facebook is adding a forwarding limit in Messenger in an effort to curb the sharing of viral misinformation. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic still affecting many parts of the world and the contentious U.S. presidential election just a few months away, now more than ever is the time to be vigilant about what you're reading online....
Facebook Messenger is getting an App Lock and new message controls for better privacy

Facebook Messenger is getting an App Lock and new message controls for better privacy

July 23, 2020
User privacy isn't one of Facebook's strong suits, and the company has found itself embroiled in numerous privacy debacles in the recent past. However, Facebook has been taking small steps in the right direction, ever since the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined his vision for a privacy-focused messaging and social networking platform last year. The...
Facebook Messenger can now do screen sharing on mobile

Facebook Messenger can now do screen sharing on mobile

July 17, 2020
The ability to share your screen is an essential feature in video conferencing apps. However, we don't see it as often in personal video calling apps. Facebook has been updating its Messenger video calling services in recent months and now they are adding screen sharing to the mix. Facebook Messenger on the desktop has had the...
Facebook Messenger’s chat heads switch to Android 11’s bubble notifications API

Facebook Messenger’s chat heads switch to Android 11’s bubble notifications API

June 4, 2020
Google introduced the new Bubbles API with Android 10 Beta 2 back in April last year. The API was initially offered as an opt-in feature for developers, with Google urging them to test the API in their apps so that the supported apps were ready when the feature finally rolled out in a future Android...
WhatsApp adds a shortcut to Facebook Messenger Rooms for video calls

WhatsApp adds a shortcut to Facebook Messenger Rooms for video calls

May 16, 2020
Facebook has started rolling out yet another messaging service: Facebook Messenger Rooms. The premise of Messenger Rooms is simple: Many of us are under stay-at-home orders so meetings, be it work or social, need to go virtual. Most people jumped onto platforms like Zoom, so Facebook wants a piece of this pie which is why...