Messenger first enabled SMS support in 2012 but discontinued it a year later. In 2016, Facebook reintroduced SMS capabilities, keeping text messaging separate from Messenger's internet-based chats.

WhatsApp, Signal and Facebook Messenger all offer end-to-end encryption. If you're on iOS and chatting to people on Apple ...

Your browser does not support the video tag. We've all sent a text and then repeatedly checked our phones for any sign of a response. The good news is that most ...

Facebook Messenger encrypts messages by default ... to send messages as a text if the iMessage won't go through, and text messages are not end-to-end encrypted. A lot of messaging services ...

Our suggestion, what we have told folks internally, is not new here: Encryption is your friend, whether it’s on text ...

For example, Facebook Messenger’s self-destructive messages ... you can send self-destructive or disappearing text, image, or voice messages. However, if the recipient doesn’t see your message ...

Last week, it added the ability to send and receive text messages from its FaceBook Messenger app for iPhone and Android. Admittedly, there are a ton of OTT players that are vying to beat SMS ...