All of a sudden, mobile payments are all the rage. Stores and banks are lining up to join Apple Pay, investors are promoting Square, and now it looks like Facebook is planning to add mobile payments ...

Is Facebook Messenger not working for you? We understand how important this service is. It is the third most popular messaging app, after all. Many of you rely on it, so it can be a pain when it ...

Matthew Zucca, a tech enthusiast and former consultant from Canada, joined Android Police in 2023. Leveraging his technical knowledge and previous consulting experience, Matthew got his first two ...

Facebook annoyed and puzzled many people last year when it forced them to download its Messenger app for chats. Its reasons for doing so are now clearer: Messenger is becoming a beast of an app, with ...

Today, Meta has unveiled what it calls "the biggest set of improvements to Messenger since it was first launched in 2011." First and foremost, end-to-end encryption is now a default for private chats ...

The Facebook Messenger update means only the sender and recipient can read or listen to messages and calls. Users can choose to back up messages with a six-digit PIN, or store a virtual key in their ...

Since 2016, you have been able to use Facebook/Meta’s Messenger as an SMS app on Android. That integration is now set to go away next month. Users that use Facebook Messenger, instead of Google or ...

Facebook is quietly removing a major feature that many people use daily to talk with other group members. And they're replacing it with a new product that has very different privacy settings. Facebook ...

Meta is starting to move more teens on Facebook and Messenger into dedicated "teen accounts" that have added parental ...