Along with sending free texts, you can too:
Message pals and contacts
- Get began quick — log in together with your Fb account, or simply use your cellphone quantity
- Ship voice messages, photographs, smileys and different emoji
- Get push Enter your cellphone quantity herenotifications
Make plans on the go along with social messaging options
- Message a good friend or begin a bunch dialog
- Embody your location to let pals know you are close by
Chat and obtain SMS messages
- Swipe left to see who’s out there to speak
- See your SMS and Fb messages collectively within the app — presently solely out there on some telephones
Messenger does all this utilizing your present knowledge plan.
What’s New
We’re excited to start out the rollout of numerous new options to make your Messenger conversations and connections even higher.
Ship Your Photographs in Excessive-Definition
Now you can ship clearer, crisper photographs in your chats. To ship an HD picture, choose a picture out of your chat composer, then flip the HD toggle on and faucet Ship. Faucet on further photographs to ship a number of in HD, then faucet Ship.
Create Shared Albums With Associates
From chats a couple of latest spring break journey, to your grandma’s eightieth birthday celebration, now you can create albums of photographs and movies to share, set up and reminisce over the perfect recollections and moments.
To create a brand new album in a bunch chat:
- Choose a number of photographs out of your chat composer
- Faucet Create album (you can too lengthy press a photograph within the chat and faucet Create album)
- So as to add to an present album, faucet Add to album
To rename the album:
- Faucet Album
- Faucet the three dot menu
- Faucet Edit Title
- Affirm new album identify
From there, everybody within the chat can view, add, delete and obtain footage and movies from the album. To find the album at any time, faucet in your group chat identify then faucet Media. This function shall be rolling out over the approaching weeks.
Add New Connections With a QR Code
Now you do not have to sort out somebody’s identify or quantity so as to add them on Messenger – you’ll be able to simply join with people by scanning their Messenger QR code or sharing yours by way of a hyperlink.
To begin a message thread with a brand new connection, go to your Settings and faucet the QR code icon on the high. From there, they’ll scan your code utilizing their system’s digital camera, or you’ll be able to share a hyperlink by tapping Share.
Ship Recordsdata Up To 100MB Proper From Your Cellphone
You now not need to depend on e-mail to ship massive recordsdata. While you’re in a Messenger chat, faucet the + button after which choose a file as much as 100MB. All main file codecs are supported, together with Phrase, PDF and Excel.
Earlier Launch Notes:
Introducing Messenger Rooms
Messenger Rooms make it straightforward to spend high quality time with pals, family members and individuals who share your pursuits. Create a room proper from Messenger or Fb, and invite anybody to affix your video name, even when they do not have a Fb account. Rooms will quickly maintain as much as 50 folks with no time restrict.
Host celebrations, collect a ebook membership or simply hang around on the sofa with pals. You needn’t name somebody and hope it is a good time or verify everybody’s calendar first. You can begin and share rooms on Fb via Information Feed, Teams and Occasions, so it is easy for folks to drop by. Quickly we’ll add methods to create rooms from Instagram Direct, WhatsApp and Portal, too.
If your pals or communities create rooms which are open to you, you may see them on Fb so you will discover issues to do and folks to hang around with. While you’re invited to a room, you’ll be able to be a part of out of your cellphone or pc — no have to obtain something to get began. If in case you have the Messenger app, you’ll be able to play with AR results like bunny ears, and new AI-powered options like immersive 360 backgrounds and temper lighting.
While you create a room, you select who can see and be a part of it. You possibly can take away folks from the decision and lock a room if you do not need anybody else to enter. Learn extra concerning the controls you may have and the way we constructed Rooms with privateness and safety in thoughts.
Earlier enhancements:
Though this has been a standard function in different messaging platforms, Fb Messenger has lastly added the flexibility to delete despatched messages on personal threads. The one situation: do not take greater than 10 minutes to take action.
- Now you’ll be able to see your name historical past and missed calls—all in a single place.
- Added Direct Obtain hyperlink which accommodates the .apk file for Fb Messenger.
- Teams: Now you’ll be able to create teams for the folks you message most. Title them, set group photographs and hold them multi function place
- Forwarding: Need to ship a message or picture to somebody who is not within the dialog? Simply faucet to ahead it on
- Dialog Shortcuts: Create a shortcut to be able to get to any dialog proper from your property display screen
- Free Calls: Discuss so long as you need and keep in contact wherever you might be. (Calls are free over Wi-Fi. In any other case, normal knowledge costs apply).
Different variations: