Get rid of the stories and the bots and the games Get rid of the stories and the bots and the games is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas ...

Once upon a time, Facebook’s Messenger app was just a way to send chat message to your friends. Over the years the social network has loaded the app with features like the ability send GIFs, play ...

It’s been a while since Facebook slit up its mobile apps and required users to download Facebook Messenger in addition to the main Facebook app. But if you don’t ...

Statistically speaking, there’s a pretty good chance you’re one of the 1.2 billion people who use Facebook Messenger at least once a month. Anecdotally, there’s a decent chance you harbor deep ...

Facebook Messenger Lite is designed to use a lot less data than the standard version of Messenger. Facebook has now expanded the app to more countries. The Android version of Facebook Messenger Lite ...

Facebook’s Messenger Lite: Free Calls & Messages app surpassed 50 million downloads on Android devices, as revealed by its Google Play Store listing. The latest turn of events marks a significant ...

Facebook Messenger Lite, the low-data version of Facebook Messenger that came to the United States last February, is getting video chat functionality in an upcoming update. The app first debuted as a ...

Exactly a year since it was first released, Facebook's "lite" version of its Messenger app is now available for users in countries such as the U.S. and UK. Before this, the Android app was mainly ...

A few days ago, Facebook quietly introduced a “Lite” version of its Facebook app for iOS devices, but only in a single market, Turkey. The app had been previously available only on Android. Today, the ...

Last year, Facebook introduced “Messenger Lite” for low-powered Android devices in emerging markets where connectivity is slower. Given the feature creep on the main client, the Lite version is often ...

Android lite apps are the antidote to full-sized apps whose ample features may be hard to use, or hard on your phone’s performance. Google, Facebook, and others have finally started taking lite apps ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Facebook released a lite version of its Messenger application near ...