The Messenger mobile app for iOS and Android will remain fully operational and unaffected, allowing users to continue conversations as usual on smartphones and tablets.

The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.

Meta, the big tech owner of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, and more, has confirmed plans to fully deprecate its native Facebook Messenger application across both Windows and macOS. As per a ...

Meta will shut down its Messenger website (messenger.com) in April 2026, redirecting users to Facebook for web chats, marking another step in merging Messenger back into the main platform ...

Meta has announced that it is shutting down Messenger web on April 2026. Here's what's going to happen and why we had two ...

Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook and Messenger, has confirmed it will retire the standalone Messenger desktop application and the Messenger.com web messaging site in 2026, prompting ...

From April 2026, users will no longer be able to access messenger.com, and web-based chats will instead be routed through ...

Meta is set to discontinue the standalone Messenger website. According to the company’s update on its help page, the ...