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

The Messenger mobile app for iOS and Android will remain fully operational and unaffected, allowing users to continue conversations as usual on smartphones and tablets.

From April 2026, users will no longer be able to access messenger.com, and web-based chats will instead be routed through ...

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 ...

Meta is retiring its standalone Messenger website this April, marking another step in the company’s move to consolidate all messaging activity within Facebook and its mobile apps.

Meta will shut down its Messenger website (messenger.com) in April 2026, redirecting users to Facebook for web chats, marking another step in merging Messenger back into the main platform ...

After the apps for Windows and Mac, Meta is also phasing out messenger.com as a platform for its messenger. Users are referred to Facebook and the mobile app.

Meta has announced the closure of its standalone Messenger website from April 2026, redirecting users to Facebook for web-based messaging.

Messenger web users will be redirected to Facebook's chat interface after the shutdown. Meta previously retired the desktop apps for Mac and Windows.

Meta is set to discontinue the standalone Messenger website. According to the company’s update on its help page, the ...

Recent news on Meta’s Messenger has been confirmed. The Messenger standalone website will be gone from April 2026. This ...

Social network Bluesky now offers private messaging by integrating the startup Germ's E2E encrypted messenger natively in its app.