Facebook announced on Wednesday, that it will start using Messenger’s messaging service in its Instagram photo and video sharing app, which is the first major step in its plan to link messages across its suite of apps.
According to Guardian report, Instagram’s old direct messaging service, Instagram Direct, has been replaced by Messenger, allowing users to send chats, photos and videos between the two platforms for the first time.
It is the first step towards a goal announced in March 2019 to merge not only those two platforms, but also to incorporate WhatsApp, and to enable end-to-end encryption for all messages sent between the three apps.
Also, the new service offers features, such as: custom emojis, and themes that were the mainstay on Messenger, but were not previously available in Instagram’s simple messaging service, and it will also introduce new features, such as: hidden messages.
Facebook reported that the new features would be rolled out in a few countries immediately, and globally soon.
Noteworthy, in last January, we learned that Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, planned to unify the infrastructure of all three of the company’s messaging services WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger.
Even though reports from late last year suggested that the US Federal Trade Commission was planning on an injunction against Facebook’s interoperability rules, the company has now gone ahead and merged Instagram and Messenger chats.
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