With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it's time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they're gone forever.

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Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Facebook's Messenger and Instagram apps are getting a new "vanish mode" feature that gives users a new way to chat using disappearing messages. Disappearing messages can already be used in Messenger's ...

Meta is adding a handful of features to the Messenger app that will be familiar to anyone who's used Slack, most notably with a new @everyone function. Starting today, typing @everyone in a chat in ...

Meta has revealed plans to end Instagram users' ability to chat with Facebook accounts later this month, rolling back a feature that it introduced over three years ago. In September 2020, Meta (then ...

In a bit of sad internet news, Meta has decided to axe the Facebook Messenger app for Windows and Mac computers on December 15 (2025). Ending the ability to make use of a separate window for all of ...