BlackBerry Messenger Finally Sunsets
BlackBerry Messenger finally shut down this past week, marking the end of another legacy platform in the mobile-centric world…
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Newest Beta WhatsApp Adds Share to Facebook and QR Code Contact Features
The latest beta version of WhatsApp now includes a new “share to Facebook” option, along with time-saving QR code features…
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Instagram Begins Telling Users it is Shutting Down its Standalone Messaging App, Direct
Instagram has started notifying its standalone messaging app users of the impending shutdown of Direct, sometime next month…
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WhatsApp Releases a Fact-Checking Service in India before Its Upcoming Elections to Combat Fake News
WhatsApp, in a continuing fight against the spread of misinformation, introduces Checkpoint Tipline, a service which rates the truthfulness of messages…
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Telegram Now Allows Users to Delete their Entire Chat Histories, Even on Other People’s Devices
It’s now possible to delete Telegram chat history, even on other people’s devices, an option long-awaited by users of the popular messaging app…
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Facebook Brings Quoted Replies to Messenger Conversations (Borrowing from Subsidiary WhatsApp)
Facebook Messenger quoted replies come to the platform, making it a bit easier to follow along in long discussion threads…
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WhatsApp is Now Testing a New Image Search Feature which Aims to Reduce Fake News
A new WhatsApp image search option test will help users determine if a picture is real or fake, assisting in the fight against false content…
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Facebook Messenger Contained a Bug that Let Others See Users’ Contacts, Chat Histories
A previous Facebook Messenger vulnerability once allowed others to unlock contacts and chat histories from strangers’ accounts…
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Facebook Gives Messenger a Dark Mode — Here’s How to Enable it Manually
Turn on Facebook Messenger dark mode simply by sending an emoji in a chat and then enjoy the new low-light, battery-saving experience…
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Instagram Discovered Testing a Web-Based Version of its Direct Messages Feature
An Instagram Direct Messages desktop website is currently in the testing phase, which could eventually free the tool from a mobile-only app to the web…
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Messenger Users can Now Wield Zuckerberg-Like Power to Unsend Communications
The newly released Facebook Messenger unsend feature gives regular users the ability to pull off what only the CEO could previously do…
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Google Hangouts to Split into Chat and Meet with the Main Platform Set to Sunset
The Google Hangouts sunset is now scheduled, with Chat and Meet, two separate services, coming in as replacements for the platform…
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Facebook Pushes Out its Redesign of Messenger and Users Don’t Like it Very Much
The latest Facebook Messenger UI redesign is now going live via a serve-side update and people are expressing their discontentment about it…
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Facebook Messenger now Supports Boomerang Video, offers AR Stickers and Portrait Mode Photos
New Facebook Messenger app camera features include support for Boomerang videos, along with AR stickers, and even portrait mode…
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Facebook just Added some New Features to Messenger Lite, including Animated GIFs and it’s Still less than 10MB in Size
Facebook Messenger Lite animated GIFs come to the stripped down mobile app, along with a few other features, delivering more
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