On Windows, launching the Messenger desktop app now redirects users directly to the full Facebook desktop application. macOS users see a similar outcome, as the app sends them straight to ...

Meta has discontinued Facebook Messenger’s native desktop app for Mac and Windows, ending access to the standalone application on December 15, 2025, and directing users to continue using the messaging ...

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The Facebook Messenger desktop app for macOS is being axed on December 15, forcing Mac users into using the web version, for better or worse. At the time, Facebook had already pulled the app from the ...

There's an easy way to make sure that your chats are safe FACEBOOK bosses have started shutting down the Messenger app on billions of devices. Meta – which owns Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and ...