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Facebook has finally begun rolling out the much-anticipated 'unsend' feature for its Messenger app, with users being able to delete text messages, photos, videos, and links. The feature is now ...

Back in April, we reported that Facebook was planning to implement a feature in Messenger to let you unsend messages. After multiple trials, the feature has now been rolled out to users in a few ...

Check your archived messages in Messenger; they might not be deleted, just hidden. Download a copy of your Facebook data to see if your messages are still on the server. Ask the person you were ...

Q: My issue: Understanding the Messages app (on Android phone) and the Messenger app (part of Facebook) and why they seem to fight each other? First, it starts out very confusing because the names are ...

Sometimes it is necessary to clean up conversations for your favorite or maybe not so favorite contacts, to help keep your messenger app little more organized. If you are interested in learning how to ...

Facebook announced today that all users can now remove messages sent on Messenger -- a feature that had previously only been used by Facebook to delete messages sent by company executives. Users will ...

Facebook Messenger can now translate messages from Spanish to English (and vice versa) for you, whatever it is you and your friend are talking about. The feature, called M's translation suggestions, ...

Queenie Wong was a senior writer for CNET News, focusing on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. Before joining CNET, she worked for The Mercury News in ...

Here is some unfortunate news for those of you who love Facebook Messenger. Facebook will not encrypt Facebook Messenger messages by default until at least 2022. This also affects Instagram chats as ...