For years, Meta (then Facebook) wanted to unify Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. It began implementing that plan by allowing Instagram users to talk to Facebook Messenger users three years ...

Meta has revealed plans to end Instagram users' ability to chat with Facebook accounts later this month, rolling back a feature that it introduced over three years ago. In September 2020, Meta (then ...

Meta will soon remove a feature that lets you chat with Facebook friends on Instagram. Starting mid-December, the company will disconnect the cross-platform integration, which it added in 2020. It ...

Three years after announcing Facebook and Instagram users could chat with one another, Meta is reversing course. The social media company merged the direct messaging programs of the two sites in ...

When Meta first unveiled the cross-app communication feature on Messenger and Instagram, it received a mixed perception from the public, and now, the company has decided to soon remove it altogether.

In 2020, Meta, which at the time was called Facebook, announced it was going to merge direct-messaging between Instagram and Messenger, in a bid to unify the instant messaging experience. Now, three ...

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino ...