Meta is shutting down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to ...

Messenger made its triumphant return to the Facebook app back in 2023, with end-to-end encryption finally arriving later that year. Since then, you've still been able to access Messenger through the ...

Both desktop apps have been removed from app stores and will stop working in December. Both desktop apps have been removed from app stores and will stop working in December. is a senior editor and ...

Meta will discontinue its standalone Messenger applications for macOS and Windows from Dec. 15, urging users to uninstall them as soon as possible. "If you’re using the Messenger desktop apps, you’ll ...

Several Bitcoiners, including Jack Dorsey, have reinforced their push for the privacy-focused messaging app Signal to adopt Bitcoin through a new “Bitcoin for Signal” campaign, which aims to integrate ...

Craig is a reporter for Pocket-lint based in Toronto. He earned a diploma in journalism from Seneca Polytechnic and holds a Media Foundations certificate from Humber College. Craig previously interned ...

Meta is officially phasing out its standalone Messenger desktop apps for Windows and macOS, with full deprecation scheduled for December 2025. According to Meta support, macOS users will have 60 days ...

Shortly after its addition of direct messages this summer, Instagram Threads is adding support for group messaging with up to 50 people. The Meta-owned competitor to X, which now has more than 400 ...

Users of the Messenger desktop app only have a little under two months left to use it, as Meta, the company that owns companies Facebook and Instagram, will be phasing it out by December. In a post on ...

The scam detection tool for Messenger, on the other hand, is currently being tested. When enabled, the feature uses on-device technology to determine if you have received a potentially spammy message ...

A Chennai-based design studio, Crazy Coconut, has created a hand-carved logo of Zoho’s Arattai messaging app on a coconut shell and shared the build video on X as a tribute to the made-in-India ...

Don't miss out on our latest stories. Add PCMag as a preferred source on Google. Meta's Messenger is one of the most popular chat services in the world, but in the coming months, its desktop apps will ...