The move comes a few months after Meta shut down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac.

Meta Platforms will retire the standalone Messenger desktop app and Messenger.com by 2026, redirecting users to Facebook's messaging page.

Meta has officially announced that Messenger.com and the Messenger desktop apps will be discontinued by April 2026. Desktop users will be automatically redirected to facebook.com/messages, which is a ...

Facebook is planning to retire its Messenger.com web app in April after pulling the plug on its desktop apps a couple of ...

Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website, according to a company help page. The website will disappear in April, though web users will still be able to send and receive messages within ...

It is the popular messaging service used by millions of people around the country. But Facebook Messenger is soon due to stop working for millions of Britons. Meta, the owners of Facebook and WhatsApp ...

Messenger.com announced that starting April 2026, the website will no longer be available for messaging. In a notice published on ...

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced that Messenger.com will no longer support messaging starting April 2026. The company also confirmed that the Messenger desktop app will no longer be ...

This is important because: Meta is steering desktop messaging into the browser, not native clients. That gives it one code path to maintain, faster rollouts, and tighter alignment across Windows and ...