Meta has discontinued Facebook Messenger’s native desktop app for Mac and Windows, ending access to the standalone application on December 15, 2025, and directing users to continue using the messaging ...

RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...

The Facebook Messenger desktop app for macOS is being axed on December 15, forcing Mac users into using the web version, for better or worse. At the time, Facebook had already pulled the app from the ...

It was always frustrating for me to be in a crowd, hear the Messenger sound go off on my device and look at the screen just to realize that it was someone else’s phone. And something tells me that I ...

In November 2025, an Instagram post (archived) with more than 100,000 likes claimed Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will start reading users' direct messages once it ...

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 ...

Nothing’s first phone with third-party bloatware has arrived, with the new Nothing Phone (3a) Lite shipping out of the box with Instagram and Facebook pre-installed. Nothing OS has long been praised ...

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

One year after launching teen accounts for Instagram, Meta is expanding the program to Facebook and Messenger. The company said the move is part of its ongoing effort to keep kids safer online. With ...

Meta has published a support doc that states its Messenger app for Mac is being discontinued. New users won’t be able to download the app at all, and existing users have about 60 more days of use ...