Facebook users were misled by a Messenger pop-up prompt that asked users to set the app as their default SMS texting app.

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Love Facebook Messenger, but still have a soft spot for good ol’fashioned SMS? Well, good news: As of Tuesday, Facebook Messenger can send SMS text messages. You heard me: No more switching back ...

Of course you can still use Facebook Messenger just for communicating with your Facebook contacts. But if you enable support for SMS in the app, it becomes your default SMS app as well.

Facebook Messenger has reintroduced SMS support to its Android app, allowing users to text message their friends outside of Facebook.

Facebook Messenger first offered SMS support in 2012, but that was dropped by 2013. In 2016, Facebook tried again with SMS kept separate from web-based communications.

A new Facebook Messenger feature has rendered the stock text messaging app on my Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone useless. Facebook is testing a way to move your SMS messages into its own Messenger ...

Surround and conquer is Facebook's new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook Messenger for Android ...

Facebook says it's testing a way for users to receive, read and respond to their SMS-based conversations in its Messenger application for mobile devices. The feature, which would be optional if ...

Facebook is going after the SMS text messaging business, opening up its Facebook Messenger app to a broader set of users. Facebook Messenger (for Android) in certain regions now allows people with ...