Messenger elevates your Facebook connections by creating a safe and authentic space for private and meaningful conversations. Whether it is sharing a Reel you saw with your best friend, going deeper with people you met through a Facebook Group or Marketplace, reacting to a Story your friend shared, or simply reaching out to say hi – Messenger brings you closer to the people and interests that make your world. Continuing on the drumbeat of elevating your messaging experience, we’re excited to start the rollout of a number of new sharing and connection features to make your private conversations ..read more

Since December, we’ve started rolling out default end-to-end encryption for personal messages on Messenger. Here’s what you need to know about end-to-end encryption – this extra layer of security and protection for your messages – and what this means for your Messenger experience. An Intro to End-to-End Encryption  What is End-to-End-Encryption? End-to-end encryption helps protect your privacy by ensuring no one sees your messages except you. Think of it as an extra layer of security that keeps your messages and calls with family and friends protected from the moment they leave your devic ..read more

We have started to rollout end-to-end encryption for all personal chats and calls on Messenger and Facebook, making them even more private and secure. End-to-end encrypted conversations offer additional functionality including the ability to edit messages, higher media quality and disappearing messages. We’ve built our end-to-end encryption on strong cryptographic principles, such as the Signal Protocol, and our own novel Labyrinth Protocol. https://messengernews.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/META_MESSENGER_EE2E_9X16_V42.mp4 Today I’m delighted to announce that we are rolling out default ..read more

Takeaways: Broadcast channels are coming to Facebook and Messenger in the coming weeks. People who manage Facebook Pages can start broadcast channels as a way to engage more deeply with their followers.  Anyone can join broadcast channels to stay up to date on the latest from their favorite Pages and dive deeper into the topics that matter most to them.  Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced we’re bringing broadcast channels to Facebook and Messenger. Broadcast channels are a public, one-to-many messaging tool for Pages on Facebook and are the latest addition to Facebook’s robust set of ..read more

Starting today, millions more people’s chats on Messenger will be upgraded to stronger encryption standards as part of our ongoing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) testing. We remain on track to launch default E2EE for one-to-one friends and family chats on Messenger by the end of the year. And as we increase the scale of testing, we wanted to provide an update on how we’ve approached this large and complex engineering challenge. Background Since 2019, a team of Meta’s engineers, cryptographers, designers and policy experts have been working on the challenge of bringing additional encryption to Me ..read more

We’re introducing more features, like chat themes, into our end-to-end encrypted experience.  We’ve started to expand global testing of end-to-end encrypted chats on Messenger. Over the coming months, millions of people around the world will see some of their individual threads become end-to-end encrypted.  Today we’re announcing the introduction of some of the features that you love in Messenger to end-to-end encrypted chats, including:  Chat themes: We’ve added chat themes to help personalize and enhance your conversations in end-to-end encrypted chats. Tired of a plain bac ..read more

This year, the Messenger team has been busier than ever. We’ve launched 50+ new features and made tons of improvements to make this our fastest version of Messenger yet. As we near the end of the year, I want to take a moment to highlight some of the biggest enhancements we’ve begun to roll out and everyone can expect to see in 2023. Chat with your community While our products have always helped you connect with your friends and family, we’re now helping to connect communities. This year, we’ve started adding features to help you connect with people around shared interests, so you can take you ..read more

Meta’s Messenger, Instagram, Horizon Worlds, and Creative Shop have teamed up with Universal Pictures to launch a haunting and fun-filled Messenger chat experience in celebration of the release of Halloween Ends-–this time giving fans an opportunity to build their own custom Halloween #KillerReels for a chance to win a spooky surprise! One lucky winner of the #KillerReels challenge will be invited to meet Jamie Lee Curtis in the first-ever virtual meet ‘n greet in a custom-built Halloween Meta Horizon World!  The #KillerReels experience will be available across Messenger and Instagram st ..read more

Takeaways: As Mark announced, we’ll begin testing the ability to start Community Chats directly in Messenger and expand the chat experience to more Facebook Groups in the coming weeks. With Community Chats, people can connect with their communities in real time around the topics they care about on both Facebook and Messenger via text, audio and video. We’ve helped more than a billion people connect with loved ones in a trusted space on Messenger, and we know that people want to engage in real time with larger communities over shared interests. Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced we’ll begin tes ..read more

Takeaways: We’re testing secure storage on Messenger, a new feature that allows you to back up your end-to-end encrypted chats. We’re also starting a test of automatic end-to-end encrypted chat threads on Messenger and expanding other features. People want to trust that their online conversations with friends and family are private and secure. We’re working hard to protect your personal messages and calls with end-to-end encryption by default on Messenger and Instagram. Today, we’re announcing our plans to test a new secure storage feature for backups of your end-to-end encrypted chats on Me ..read more