Facebook has a built-in messaging feature that you can use to send messages to your contacts. It is annoying for smartphone users that you cannot read and write messages in the normal Facebook app, but only with an additional messenger application. Can you use Messenger on your smartphone without an app?
The Facebook makers are currently not planning to call up the news on the smartphone without a messenger app. But that could finally change soon. Currently you can use a little trick to bypass the messenger.
Is Facebook scrapping the Messenger app?
In 2014, the chat function was outsourced to a separate app. A Company blog post now suggests that the end of the messenger app could soon be heralded. You can read there that it should be easier to share content on Facebook in the future without calling up an additional app. A way to access messages within the normal Facebook app and without Messenger is already being tested. So it’s quite possible that Messenger will soon be history. Until the messages are integrated back into the Facebook app, you can only access the chat function on your smartphone indirectly.
Facebook: Messages without a messenger app – that’s how it works
Here’s how you can bypass Facebook Messenger right now:
- You can’t access the notifications on the smartphone within the Facebook app, but it works in the browser version of the social network.
- So control your browser app and open the mobile Facebook page. Danger: Enter this address in the browser: mobile.facebook.com. If you try to access Facebook via a link on Google, the Facebook app will open automatically.
- The mobile version of the social network will open. If you call the message function here, you will be automatically forwarded to the messenger app. To prevent this, the website switches to desktop view.
- With Chrome on the Android smartphone, you tap on the three dots in the top right corner and then activate the option “desktop website“.
- With the “Desktop” option activated in the browser tab, you now enter at the top www.facebook.com a.
- So you switch from the mobile Facebook page to the version you know from the browser on the PC. You can do that here at the top right speech bubble icon press and access your chats.
The desktop version is not optimized for mobile devices and the additional scrolling can sometimes be annoying. If you turn on the browser notifications, you will also be informed about new messages there. On the iPhone, the desktop view in the Safari browser can also be called up via the app options. To do this, press the “aA” symbol in the menu bar. This way you can also see Facebook messages from unknown users.
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