Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite for Android in September | TechCrunch
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Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite, its lightweight stripped-down version of Messenger, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
  • Meta is retiring Messenger Lite, a simpler version of Messenger aimed at phones with lower-end specs.
  • The app was introduced in 2016 for Android users and had been downloaded about 760 million times globally, with India being the top user.
  • Although there was an iOS version, it was closed in 2020. - In other news, Messenger will stop supporting SMS next month, and Meta aims to add end-to-end encryption to Messenger chats by year’s end.
  • catloverEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    ah goddamn. i don’t want to use the messenger app its so full of useless stuff. i always used the bare minimum of facebook, used to chat on mbasic.facebook.com, but they removed it as well. wish i could just not use it, i only ise the chat features, but too many ppl in my life just use it and would be a pain to convince them to use something else.

    • lustrumEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      This might be my final straw for getting rid completely. I’m not installing the normal messenger app

    • randomperson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I convinced people who I mostly chat with to switch long time ago. I don’t really chat with the rest and they can contact me over SMS if they (or I) want anyway.