Open Facebook Messenger App

Facebook desires to take over all of your messaging on Android. As of today, it's widely presenting a function inside Open Facebook Messenger App that'll allow it to handle both Facebook messages and basic SMS messages, all integrated into one user interface. The majority of Facebook Messenger's fancier features can't be utilized here, but -- luckily-- you'll still have the ability to send out stickers. The only genuine style here is that, like Facebook talks, SMS conversations can pop out of the app as Chat Heads and drift around the screen, over top of other apps.

Open Facebook Messenger App

This feature has actually remained in testing considering that February, inning accordance with TechCrunch, and seems to have already rolled out to quite a couple of people. I have actually been using it for the past few months as my main messaging app-- there's absolutely nothing groundbreaking about it, however I use Facebook Messenger a lot, so it's been convenient to have all my chats in one location. Chat Heads for text messages is neat enough, although it gets annoying liquidating a floating bubble whenever I get sent a two-factor authentication code.

Facebook informs TechCrunch that none of your text messages will be seen by Facebook's servers while utilizing this feature. Everything is taking place locally on your phone, so this theoretically will not strike any personal privacy concerns. Messenger won't aim to integrate your text messages and Facebook messages either; the two stay separate, even if you're messaging the very same contact in 2 places.

With today's release Open Facebook Messenger App, Facebook Messenger leader David Marcus states the SMS/ Messenger combination will be available to "most countries." If you were trying to find a way to let Facebook control more parts of your life, make certain to give this one a try.