Facebook Messenger Remove Support For SMS In September

Facebook Messenger, developed by Meta, released its redesigned messaging service in 2010, which self-contained both iOS and Android apps in 2011. The users have been provided the facility to use Facebook or Messenger as an SMS app on Android. Still, unfortunately, by next month, the company has decided to stop this service. 

If the news is to be believed, so according to one support article, it is estimated that the users who used to use Facebook Messenger, for SMS and MMS, instead of Google or Samsung Messages, so from next month they will not be able to use Messenger to send and receive SMS messages, which their cellular network will send once they update their app after the deadline September 28, 2023. 

Meta offers users notifications to their phone’s default messaging app, similar to Google’s application. The users through their cellular network still be able to send as well receive SMS messages and, with the help of their phone’s default messaging application, get access to all the SMS message history.

The users who are interested in switching can follow the steps mentioned here, go to Settings app >> Apps >> Default apps >> SMS app and then pick another client. 

Facebook Messenger very first announced SMS support for the user’s convenience in 2012, but it was removed in 2013 by the company, unfortunately. In 2016, it tried its best once again with SMS kept unconnected from communication-based on the Web. and the company offered purple themes to these threads.

Today, third-party SMS apps are not in the discussion or focus; on the other hand, they also need access to RCS. But Google has made the Messaging facility a first-party Android, which enhances the user’s experience. However, the carriers and OEMs have also mainly accepted the Messages application as the default. 

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