Facebook appears to flipping the switch on incorporating the chat systems for Instagram and Messenger. On Friday evening, several editors at The Verge throughout the country– on both iOS and Android gadgets– noticed an upgrade screen appeared in Instagrams mobile app with the message “Theres a Brand-new Method to Message on Instagram” with a list of features including a “brand-new vibrant look for your chats,” more emoji responses, swipe-to-reply, and the huge one: “chat with good friends who utilize Facebook.”
Facebook got Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, and bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $19 billion. The business did not immediately reply to a request for remark Friday night.
The regular DM icon in the top right of Instagram is changed by the Facebook Messenger logo once you strike update. Talks on Instagram are indeed more colorful than before, with the senders messages moving between blue and purple as you scroll. At least for right now, its still not possible to message Facebook users from Instagram.
But Facebook has explained its strategies to combine the messaging platforms of its hugely popular apps to permit cross-messaging among Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Facebook was said to be restoring the underlying facilities so users who were on only one of its apps might connect to others using different Facebook apps. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has likewise stated he desires the system to be end-to-end encrypted. By incorporating its most popular apps, Facebook might be able to complete more straight with Apples iMessage.
