Facebook launches cross-platform messaging for Instagram, Messenger: How to use, change privacy settings and more

Cross-platform messaging: Social media giant Facebook has now launched its cross-platform messaging app Messenger for Instagram and Facebook. With this, Facebook users would be able to message someone on Instagram from Facebook itself, and vice versa. New features have also been added to the messenger, including selfie stickers, disappearing messages, chat colours and themes and custom emojis. However, users also have the option to disable cross-platform messaging if they wish to do so. In that case, the messengers would have the updated features but would continue to remain like the previous direct messaging apps.

There are also certain privacy concerns regarding this update. So here’s how you can enable cross-platform messaging and change privacy settings.