Today Facebook messenger for Android has received an extra feature – support for SMS. you will be ready to send and receive SMS text messages from the app, provided you initially set it up as your default SMS app. this is often simply done tho’, and once you switch the feature on your Facebook messenger communications can stay blue, whereas SMS messages can show up in purple.
The point of this is often for you to own to use one less app, a minimum of that is what Facebook appears to assume. If you progress your SMS use into traveler, then there isn’t any reason for mistreatment another app dedicated to SMS communication.
SMS in messenger supports text, video, images, audio, similarly as emojis, stickers, and location sharing. Your SMS conversations won’t be uploaded to Facebook servers, and every one the messages are (obviously) sent through the standard SMS/MMS channels from your carrier.
To set things up move to Settings (the person icon) in Facebook messenger, faucet on SMS within the list, so activate “Default SMS App”. That’s it.
The rollout of this feature would possibly take a while to succeed in all Facebook messenger users on Android. At this time it’s unclear if you would like a selected app version to access it or if it’s additional of a server-side switch.
