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Messenger is returning to the Facebook mobile app after nine years away

<p>It's been so long since <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2014-07-28-facebook-messenger-taking-over.html">Meta cut Messenger out of the Facebook mobile app[/url] that Windows Phone was still somewhat of a thing at the time. Almost nine years later, Meta is ready to bring them back together. &quot;We are testing the ability for people to access their Messenger inbox within the Facebook app and you’ll see us expand this testing soon,&quot; <a data-i13n="cpos:2;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/tag/facebook/">Facebook[/url] head Tom Alison wrote. &quot;Ultimately, we want it to be easy and convenient for people to connect and share, whether in the Messenger app or directly within Facebook.&quot;</p><p>When Meta removed <a data-i13n="cpos:3;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/tag/messenger/">Messenger[/url] from the Facebook app in 2014, it said that &quot;our goal is to focus development efforts on making Messenger the best mobile messaging experience possible and avoid the confusion of having separate Facebook mobile messaging experiences.&quot; It's unclear whether Meta has any plans to bring messaging back to the mobile browser version of Facebook. It started pushing mobile web users toward the Messenger app <a data-i13n="cpos:4;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2016-06-04-facebook-shoves-mobile-web-users-toward-the-messenger-app.html">in 2016[/url]. In any case, having one fewer app to juggle on your phone is probably not a bad thing. You might be able to <a data-i13n="cpos:5;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/instagram-facebook-messenger-chat-merger-190328812.html">send messages to Instagram users[/url] from the Facebook app too.</p><span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>Meta made the announcement in a <a data-i13n="cpos:6;pos:1" href="https://about.fb.com/news/2023/03/facebook-today-and-tomorrow/">bizarrely framed blog post[/url] about Facebook's focus areas for 2023. The post seeks to assure people that &quot;Facebook is not dead nor dying,&quot; as it now has <a data-i13n="cpos:7;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/facebook-2-billion-meta-q4-2022-earnings-223814979.html">more than 2 billion users[/url].</p><p>In an effort to become more competitive with <a data-i13n="cpos:8;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/tag/tiktok/">TikTok[/url], Meta is attempting to shift Facebook away from an app where you keep up with friends and family to more of an entertainment and discovery platform. It's trying to &quot;make Facebook the best place for social discovery and sharing,&quot; as Alison put it in the blog post.&nbsp;</p><p>A key reason why Meta is bringing messaging back to the Facebook app is to &quot;make it easier for people to share what they discover on Facebook via messaging, when, where and how it suits their needs, without needing to switch to another app,&quot; Alison wrote. TikTok enables users to share videos that they stumble upon with their friends through built-in <a data-i13n="cpos:9;pos:1" href="https://www.engadget.com/2020-02-19-tiktok-parents-family-safety-mode-teens.html">direct messaging[/url]. So, on one hand Meta is reversing course and going back to an older way of doing things, but on the other it is, once again, aping a competitor.</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/messenger-is-returning-to-the-facebook-mobile-app-after-nine-years-away-191426674.html?src=rss

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