Facebook might reintegrate Messenger back into its eponymous mobile app

Facebook powerfulness live on prepping to reintegrate basic messaging functions dorsum into its original mobile app for iPhone as well as iPad, viii years after separating Messenger into a standalone app.

App researcher Jane Manchun Wong get-go spotted this characteristic beingness tested amongst a tiny spell of Facebook’s user base. The exam focuses on the app’s Messenger push clitoris that instantly takes you lot to the previously removed Chats tab instead of opening the carve upwardly Messenger app.

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In a follow upwardly tweet, Wong notes that this Chats department simply contains a express option of Messenger’s features. Although you lot tin exercise it to post as well as have messages, you’ll all the same necessitate to opened upwardly the standalone Messenger app to brand calls, post photos or post message reactions.

We’re non surprised every bit this seems to live on percentage of Facebook’s upcoming pin to privacy that volition encounter it integrate messaging functions across Messenger, Instagram as well as WhatsApp to brand these services interoperable.

For now, this novel "Chats" department seems to simply incorporate the basic chat functionalities. To compass message reactions, brand a call, post photos, etc, you'd all the same conduct maintain to opened upwardly the Messenger app

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 12, 2019

Messenger was get-go released every bit a standalone app dorsum inward 2011. Three years after inward 2014, the society removed all messaging functions from the eponymous mobile app. Even though the social networking behemoth is testing basic chat functionalities inward the mobile Facebook app, that doesn’t hateful that the standalone Messenger app is going away anytime soon.

No, they serve dissimilar markets

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 12, 2019

Not simply does a unmarried app to access both the original Facebook service as well as Messenger brand a lot of sense, but nosotros likewise know that Mark Zuckerberg himself said that messaging features all conk along to be inward WhatsApp, Instagram as well as Facebook.

Should Messenger live on reintegrated into Facebook’s eponymous iOS app?

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