Meta (the owner of Facebook) has just announced that
If you use Messenger as your default SMS messaging app on your Android device, please note that after September 28, 2023, you will no longer be able to send and receive mobile texts using Messenger after an app update
– we read in the official announcement.
You’ll still be able to send and receive SMS messages over your mobile network and access your SMS history through your phone’s new default messaging app.
Meta explains.
Messenger without SMS support. Zuckerberg lost to Apple
Recall that Facebook released the feature to send and receive text messages via Messenger in 2012. It was supposed to be a response to the standard presented by Apple iMessages. Unfortunately, for Mark Zuckerberg, this solution did not gain much popularity. It is worth recalling that Messenger has already lost support for this function once (it was restored in 2016).
I used the SMS function in Messenger. What to do, how to live?
If you’re one of the people who used Messenger as their default text messaging app, before September 28, you need to make a change in Android settings. To do this, go to . At this stage, you choose a new SMS client.
Your best bet will probably be Google Messages, which is the default texting app for Android smartphones. Reason? Unlike alternative customers, Google News offers support for the RCS standard.
RCS (Rich Communication Services) differs from SMS in that it can send files much larger than in the case of the well-known messaging system. In addition, it informs the user in real time whether his interlocutor has read the sent message. So in many ways it resembles iMessege.
Source: Gazeta
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