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Instantly reach the people in your life—for free. Messenger is just like texting, but you don't have to pay for every message (it works with your data plan).
Not just for Facebook friends: Message people in your phone book and just enter a phone number to add a new contact.
Group chats: Create groups for the people you message most. Name them, set group photos and keep them all in one place.
Photos and videos: Shoot videos and snap selfies or other photos right from the app and send them with one tap.
Chat heads: Keep the conversation going while you use other apps.
Free calls: Talk as long as you want, even with people in other countries. (Calls are free over Wi-Fi. Otherwise, standard data charges apply.)
Even more ways to message:
Bring your conversations to life with stickers.
Preview your gallery photos and videos without leaving the conversation--then choose the perfect ones to send.
Record voice messages when you have more to say.
Extra features:
Know when people have seen your messages.
Forward messages or photos to people who weren't in the conversation.
Search for people and groups to quickly get back to them.
Turn on location to let people know when you're nearby.
See who's available on Messenger and who's active on Facebook.
Create shortcuts to get to any conversation right from your home screen.
Turn off notifications when you're working, sleeping or just need a break.
Stay logged in so you never miss a message.
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3.9
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Md Sydur Rahman
Something wrong Sticker is not opening in massage box
Anthony Bastiaansen
Ignores "Do Not Disturb" setting on Android Mark Zuckerberg apparently knows better than I do whether or not I want to be disturbed with sounds and flashing lights while I'm sleeping. When I say, "I want to sleep". He says, in the midst of my dreams, "NO, you will not ignore me. You will respond to every message and drive up my usage numbers so that I can command higher advertising prices. This is the way of things my son. I own you now. .....and, where are my sharks with frikin laser beams on their heads?"
patricia fox
Voting Trump I AM DISABLE Lady navite of West Palm Beach,Fla . Grew up 3block from you golf club. Anyway I know how it'd important to have good heath care.with low premium live month to month on litte pay hope you will consiter a raise 2017 for sssd, ssi and social security Thank you pround to call you my president.
NotADoctor WINS
Its facebook nothing more nothing less Messenger is trying to be more than just a facebook extension, but it cant its utterly dreadful at anything else than retrieving Facebook messages . even so it sometimes doesnt do that right. It will once in a while go into an infinite load causing me to remove the app from ram and reloading. Try not to overcomplicate it by trying to make it something its not supposed to be.
Jake Craddock
Terrible app So bow when i want to look further down on my messages i cant do that as it just stops at about 20 messages down. Did you ever think that if talk to more people than that. How do i see more messages i cant scroll down any more than 20 messages. Stop hiding my own messages and just keep this app the way it was..... and now with this my day crap what the hell... thats what we have snap chat for and when i sometimes scroll down i close the app i am sick of it just put it back the way it was
Scott Smith
Deserves no stars Why is it still auto updating when I have disabled all permissions and even unchecked the box for auto update on Google Play but here it is updating itself anyway? I don't want messenger or facebook on my phone but it's built into it and now it's using my data without having to ask?
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Ignores "Do Not Disturb" setting on Android Mark Zuckerberg apparently knows better than I do whether or not I want to be disturbed with sounds and flashing lights while I'm sleeping. When I say, "I want to sleep". He says, in the midst of my dreams, "NO, you will not ignore me. You will respond to every message and drive up my usage numbers so that I can command higher advertising prices. This is the way of things my son. I own you now. .....and, where are my sharks with frikin laser beams on their heads?"
Voting Trump I AM DISABLE Lady navite of West Palm Beach,Fla . Grew up 3block from you golf club. Anyway I know how it'd important to have good heath care.with low premium live month to month on litte pay hope you will consiter a raise 2017 for sssd, ssi and social security Thank you pround to call you my president.
Its facebook nothing more nothing less Messenger is trying to be more than just a facebook extension, but it cant its utterly dreadful at anything else than retrieving Facebook messages . even so it sometimes doesnt do that right. It will once in a while go into an infinite load causing me to remove the app from ram and reloading. Try not to overcomplicate it by trying to make it something its not supposed to be.
Terrible app So bow when i want to look further down on my messages i cant do that as it just stops at about 20 messages down. Did you ever think that if talk to more people than that. How do i see more messages i cant scroll down any more than 20 messages. Stop hiding my own messages and just keep this app the way it was..... and now with this my day crap what the hell... thats what we have snap chat for and when i sometimes scroll down i close the app i am sick of it just put it back the way it was
Deserves no stars Why is it still auto updating when I have disabled all permissions and even unchecked the box for auto update on Google Play but here it is updating itself anyway? I don't want messenger or facebook on my phone but it's built into it and now it's using my data without having to ask?
Notifications Are Horrible When I get a message I get a notification in the Facebook app that won't go away. Opening/closing/restarting my phone/messenger doesn't resolve it. Every time I get a message I have to disable messenger, revert it back to factory settings, reenable, go back into the downgraded version, open the message again, and then update again to the newest version. I'm convinced the *only* reason anyone uses this amazingly horrible app is because Facebook forced them to. FIX YOUR APP.
Hate it being linked to my text messages Keep trying to unlink the 2, but once they got your permission they wont let go. Im uninstalling if I cant get this app from storing my personal texts! Please help if you can.
Terrible new update This new version is trying to be Messenger and Snapchat in one. The result is terrible. New message notifications with no new messages, extreme lag times and massive consumption of cpu. Works properly about 40% of the time but all the superfluous features aren't worth it.
I can't even edit this damned review!!! I was FORCED to install this annoying app, and now repeatedly am being instructed to "install Messenger" even though I've already done so. The most annoying part is that it gives out too much personal information! And now, I find that some of my contacts are missing! Why did THAT happen?
🖕Facebook Never Listens🖕 This app is completely useless! You force people to use an app that was once integrated into the Facebook app. It takes up unnecessary space on our phones. Your will lose a lot more people if you don't put messages back into the Facebook app where they belong! Get rid of this app!
Don't want it Seperate the facebook and messenger apps. You download two different apps so it needs to be used as two different ones. A notification comes up on messenger then and it don't need to show up on the Facebook app especially when someone don't have it on their phone. I dont need it. If theyre close enough to me they'll have my number. A waste of space in the phone.I'm tired of having to redownload it to get the notifications off. I got it on my iPod and the messeges won't show up.??
Hate hate hate it! I NEVER review things so that shows how much I hate it! If I wanted my texts and Facebook messages all in one place I'd only do one not both of them! I've tried to be patient with the app but I'm done being nice about it. There is NO REASON this app needs to be mandatory. If it were optional I'd have no problem with it, but it's just not for me!
Still no disabling calls + confused app Latest update still doesn't disable calls and the confused connection pop up has returned. App constantly asks me if im willing to use data to perform an action like sending a photo or clicking a link when im on wifi. Lag has not gotten worse but is still there.
Allow more control of contacts. Add IOS emoji. Allow me to delete contacts separately from my address book - for example, I don't want work contacts in my personal messenger. Allow me to hide my number/account from people who have my number in their phones - once again, I want to keep my personal messenger personal. And the FB emoji and awful and counterproductive. If you were smart, then you'd pay for IOS emoji.
Stupid Why cant we just read the messages on facebook, rather have messanger as an extra option for those who use it all the time. Facebook should have a basic way of sending and receiving messages, having to download fb messanger shouldnt be our only option to read a message.
How can I turn off the new crap? I like using messenger in theory but now the top of the screen has these useless My Day and I'm Doing icons that I have no interest in. Where's the "Hide this section" option? This is a chat app not social media - we have FB for that. And somehow this coincided with a messenger notification in FB when there's no new message. Don't irritate us - we'll find an alternative.
It's irritating... Everytime I have completed a video call or normal text chat....it won't show Active People's list without killing the application at least once... And it just keeps on loading the Active list almost 7/10 times.....
You know whats annoying? 1. When it records voicemails automatically, when the call is an unswered. And sends it directly without confirmation. 2. Standard Data Charges waning always pops up. Even if im connected to my Home Internet.
Seriously fix the 2 giant bugs! For over a year now if you open chat heads and open the keyboard, the top of the message window overlaps the chat heads themselves. Also photos open Behind the open chat overlay do you can't see them. Also are we ever going to be able to search in messenger like we can on the website? I want to be able to search my conversation to pull up info from some time ago without having to spend an hour scrolling backwards.
Forced SMS ? ok, this do first ask later way of doing things is completely inappropriate and out of line: When exactly did I explicitly gave permission to this app to read and display my SMS? ever heard about privacy? of course I don't want facebook to have this data. Now you do. Great... Just stop giving us more reasons to trade trust (of which you already had so little left) for hate towards you.
Prefer the desktop version Ordinarily I use explorer on my android to avoid the annoyance and inability to lock my primary messenger account on a shared communication device and this no longer allows you to avoid the mobile website and use the desktop option.
I hate it Whenever I am texting on my phone it shows up on messenger and put little bubbles on my screen interfering with what I am doing. I hate it. I wish it wouldn't steal all my text messages and trying and be the end all message center. It didn't used to be that way.
Slowing down and freezing. Never had a problem until last week. Now it's always slow and sluggish and continually freezes. It's so bad that it's getting easier to just log into a computer and check messages, which is a ridiculous and inconvenient option.
Kinda a mess Decided to give it a go again. Now the app just closes by itself in the middle of writing a message for no reason all the damn time. Worse yet it doesn't save what you were writing so you gotta start over.
Unread Msgs. Everytime I get a new message, the notification doesn't go away!! Its so damn annoying. Why can't we just go back to the browser and view messages from there instead of wasting time with this dumb app? I've deleted the app 4 times now.
My personal phone Dont like the fact that FB can access all my information on my phone, from my camera to my contacts, & all my activity. I get notifications when my mobile data is on, whether or not im logged in to Facebook or not. When anyone sees that on my phone, they can click on the notification, automatically logs me in the app. Dont like that. Thats not good security. Got into settings but no options to enter password that way in. Besides. I dont like the Facebook app, use my cell browser & cant get PM's without app.
Ugh NO PRIVACY! I can't get online without someone knowing, or how long ago I was active! If I want to be antisocial, I should be able to be antisocial! Sometimes I don't want to message back right away, and people get butthurt that I get on and don't message them back! It's so annoying!
PURE CRAP!!! It does not sync properly between accounts! Nothing works correctly!!!!!!! The HUGE thumbs up doesn't work on edge screen phones! The FB app and Messenger are out of sync when it comes to deleting old conversations and clearing notifications. I have the same issues with the FB Page Manager app!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate FB for forcing both these apps on people. If both worked properly they would be valuable tools.
Weird Connection Issue that is never fixed I keep getting the "waiting for network" message and with that it disconnects me from the server, It doesn't matter what connection I have the same problem keeps happening. Please fix immediately
App too heavy, way too many permissions, too many almost daily, heavy updates One day facebook mobile simply refused to show me my messages, and I was literally forced to install this crap. It's enormously big given the things it does, the permissions needed are an endless list, the heavy updates are way too frequent, almost daily, and the transparency is 0... the "what's new" section is always the same!! The perfect NWO app :(
Get a Galaxy S7 Had to do the same thing . take an app off so I could put another app on that u really want until I got my Galaxy S7 phone. I like this app alot better though:)
Great app but... Consider allowing sms users to be able to change the color of the texts. The purple color of the sms text messages are not very appealing to some users. Being able to change the colors of sms chats, rather than just the facebook messages, would be a great plus.
Getting worse Notifications make sounds overriding the operation system settings. Facebook is not an alarm or favorite friend. Please respect do not disturb or sleep settings in the phone. LOTS OF CRASHING and FREEZING in this version compared to earlier versions.
Since the last update it's hammering my battery I haven't even used messenger today yet it has sucked 15% of my device battery power today... unacceptable. Please fix immediately
What's with the pics? Why have all your stickers from this app appeared in my phones gallery? It's bloody annoying and I can't find the images or their file to delete them. Absolute pain in the arse when you're trying to put a pic on Facebook and you have to scroll through loads of images you don't even want!!
Simply put I hate it! I should not be forced for spying on my privacy as it has too many needed permissions and i cant understand why people are giving more than 1 star ratings like you dont value yourselves or something?I like it the way it was before with my privacy permissions granted to me to make my own choices!!
Stop copying snapchat! People dont wanna use messenger to post pics about thier day,half the time it lags out n wont connect properly since this new feature was introduced. Very laggy not happy
Great Messenger but still a major issue. I have android version 6.0.1 ( Marshmallow) smartphone. Issue about Reduce Facebook Messenger app size - for this, It will install faster in device and take less storage space in your smartphone.This Facebook latest Version 96.0.0.16.70 app size is approximately 35 mb , but after installed this app in android devices,it have taken more than 200 mb space in the internal memory storage space,its too enough, so getting the device hang and it takes too long time for installing.So fix this as soon as possible.
Takes too much space. Phone always lagging. Constant notification very annoying and i don't have much time for chatting here. Only important msgs they can use my cont nos.direct.
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Now you can see your call history and missed calls—all in one place.
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November 9, 2016
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