#MESSENGER APP FOR MAC DESKTOP INSTALL#
#MESSENGER APP FOR MAC DESKTOP UPDATE#
#MESSENGER APP FOR MAC DESKTOP PC#

Now in testing before rolling out later this year, users can pick any Facebook video, invite one or multiple friends and laugh together. Video Co-Watching – TechCrunch reported in November that Messenger was building a Facebook Watch Party-style experience that would let users pick videos to watch at the same time as a friend, with reaction cams of their faces shown below the video.

#MESSENGER APP FOR MAC DESKTOP UPDATE#

The Lightspeed update will roll out later this year. While Facebook already offers Messenger Light for the developing world, making the main app faster for everyone else could help Messenger swoop in and steal users from the status quo of SMS. In testing, the app can cold start in merely 1.3 seconds, which Chudnovsky says is just 25 percent of where Messenger and many other apps are today.

#MESSENGER APP FOR MAC DESKTOP INSTALL#

Project Lightspeed – Messenger is reengineering its app to cut 70 mb off its download size so people with low-storage phones don’t have to delete as many photos to install it. Especially as Messenger focuses more on businesses, giving them a dedicated desktop interface could convince them to invest more in lead generation and customer service through Messenger. Chudnovsky says it will remove the need to juggle and resize browser tabs by giving you an always-accessible version of Messenger that can replace some of the unofficial knock-offs. Messenger Desktop – A stripped-down version of Messenger focused on chat, audio and video calls will debut later this year. Here’s a look at the major Messenger announcements and why they’re important: Utilities will be more powerful, more functional and more desired if built on top of a system that’s interoperable and end-to-end encrypted.” But we feel that utilities will be less functional if we don’t do that work. “Of course, if we didn’t have to do all that, we’d be able to invest more in utilities.

But he stresses that “All of the engineering behind it is has been redone” to make it more reliable, and to comply with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s directive to unite the backends of Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram Direct. “We believe you can build practically any utility on top of messaging,” says Facebook’s head of Messenger Stan Chudnovsky.

Facebook hopes this will boost the app beyond the 20 billion messages sent between people and businesses each month, which is up 10X from December 2017. Merchants will be able to let users book appointments at salons and masseuses, collect information with new lead generation chatbot templates and provide customer service to verified customers through authenticated m.me links.

#MESSENGER APP FOR MAC DESKTOP PC#

Those include that it will launch Mac and PC desktop apps, a faster and smaller mobile app, simultaneous video co-watching and a revamped Friends tab, where friends can use an emoji to tell you what they’re up to or down for.įacebook is also beefing up its tools for the 40 million active businesses and 300,000 developers on Messenger, up from 200,000 developers a year ago. Today, Messenger pushes on both fronts with a series of announcements at Facebook’s F8 conference. To win chat, Facebook Messenger must be as accessible as SMS, yet more entertaining than Snapchat.

Messenger app for mac desktop