Facebook unveiled an updated messenger. He did not cluttered with unnecessary features
Android Ios / / December 19, 2019
Facebook has announced a new, fourth version of its messenger. The Company significantly simplified it: now it is not nine tabs, and three.
In the Chats tab contains all correspondence, and in People appear people who are online. Discover section is designed to communicate with businesses and provides access to games.
Stan Chudnovsky, manager of Facebook Messenger product.The app is not so simple, how it was in the beginning. We realized that it is necessary once again to do so.
Therefore, the company decided to update the design of the application. For example, to send a photo or start a video chat no longer need a few clicks. Now just open the Chats tab and swipe your finger to the side by the name of the desired user.
In each correspondence contextual displays small icons that indicate whether there is a game or a video call right now. Another example - Discover tab and Games: before they existed separately, but now merged into one.
Facebook learned a lot as a result of studying the behavior of users. For example, the messenger is no longer the tab Groups, because people create the correspondence group for the most part through individual chats.
Stories continue to have the company of great importance. Access to them can be accessed through tabs Chats and People. In the first, they are depicted as small circles, in the second - the larger tiles. According to Facebook said the stories every day uses 300 million people.
Also in the Facebook Messenger appeared gradient theme. You can make the color changes from one to another as the scrolling chat. Later promise to add a dark subject.
The application is still available many features that were present in it before. Just now they are not so intrusive.
The new messenger will soon be available to all users.
Price: Free
Price: Free