Since October 2016, Meta has offered the world a way to save on their smartphone's space and data consumption with the introduction of Messenger Lite, but this famed app will soon bid its farewell ...

Instagram and Messenger users can now use their Meta avatars to answer and make video calls as the company introduced a way to go on-cam without necessarily being seen. As announced earlier today, ...

Messenger is finally making end-to-end encryption the default setting on all personal messages and calls, along with several other updates. It's good news for anyone concerned about their online ...

Meta's ongoing efficiency drive has resulted in another round of layoffs. Messenger, the popular Facebook app, was hit this week with cuts. The move comes amid a spate of reorganizations and earlier ...

Meta is enabling end-to-end encryption on Messenger for millions of users across the globe via a software update, the company has announced. Meta first started testing the security protocol in August ...

Messenger Lite was announced in October of 2016 and aimed at less-powerful Android devices. It eventually became available for all phones, but Meta is now killing Messenger Lite in September. For some ...

The new additions could make E2E more accessible, but policy questions and political debates mean encryption by default is at least a year away. Reading time 2 minutes Meta is making it more difficult ...

Meta has revealed more details about how third-party messaging apps can be interoperable with WhatsApp and Messenger. The company is being required to open up its apps to a certain extent to comply ...

Tech giant Meta is bringing new tools with a primary goal to protect its user base from potential scams. The company notes that its teams have “detected and disrupted” nearly eight million accounts ...

In 2020, Meta, which at the time was called Facebook, announced it was going to merge direct-messaging between Instagram and Messenger, in a bid to unify the instant messaging experience. Now, three ...