Meta Is Shutting Down Its Desktop Messenger App

Meta is shutting down its Messenger app for macOS and Windows and pushing users to nan web. Meta confirmed complete email to Engadget that nan app will beryllium afloat shutdown connected December 15, aft which nan easiest ways to entree Messenger chats erstwhile you're not connected your telephone will beryllium nan Facebook app connected Windows, aliases nan Facebook and Messenger websites.

The institution hasn't provided an mentation for why it's abandoning its desktop Messenger apps, but Meta's support article does opportunity that users will person a notification informing them of nan shutdown, and will beryllium blocked from accessing nan app aft December 15.

In bid for your chats to beryllium saved going forward, nan institution says you'll person to move connected unafraid retention and adhd a pin codification to your account. To make judge your chats will beryllium archived:

1. Click connected nan gear icon supra your floor plan picture.

2. Click connected Privacy & Safety, and past End-to-end encrypted chats.

3. Click connected Message storage, and past make judge Turn connected unafraid storage is toggled on.

Meta officially cut Messenger retired of Facebook successful 2014 to create a focused messaging acquisition abstracted from nan tangle of features nan societal media level offered astatine nan time. The institution later tried to connect Messenger and Instagram Direct Messaging into 1 connection platform, but backed away from nan thought successful 2023. Rather than Meta’s liking successful messaging abruptly waning, abandoning nan desktop apps apt reflects nan truth that astir group for illustration to usage nan company’s mobile apps aliases websites.