With the Messenger desktop app shutting down, it's time to quickly save your Messenger desktop chats before they're gone forever.

Chris Welch is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio (Sonos, Apple, Bose, Sony, etc.), home theater, smartphones, photography, ...

Windows Live Messenger was introduced for iOS in 2010 but has since been discontinued. Messenger was a chat client that businesses could use to stay in contact with employees, clients and other ...

One of the best thing you can do for your smartphone is to remove the Facebook app, and instead, use it in a browser. The advantages are multiple: it saves you storage space, it can save battery life, ...

Facebook made an interesting announcement earlier this week, as it opened its Messenger app to those who would rather not log in with their Facebook credentials. The move came more than a year after ...