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Three years after Meta, then Facebook, proudly announced a chat integration that allowed users to send messages to their Facebook contacts and Instagram friends through the same Messenger, it has decided to reverse the course..
Meta has announced in its latest support page that it will no longer support cross-app chatting between Messenger and Instagram starting mid-December 2023...
For the uninitiated, since 2020, Meta allows users of Facebook and Instagram to use Messenger or Instagram DMs to message their friends on either of the platforms..
Additionally, the support page also states that any chats users have previously had with their Facebook friends via Instagram, will not transfer to their Messenger inbox...
However, considering that in order to comply with the EUs Digital Markets Act, WhatsApp is already working on third-party chats, it is possible that the move to discontinue cross-app chatting between Instagram and Messenger is due to that as well..
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