Android Facebook Messenger Users Can Send, Receive SMS Messages

Facebook is giving Messenger users with Android devices the option of accessing their SMS messages via the application.

Facebook is giving Messenger users with Android devices the option of accessing their SMS messages via the application.

The social network said in a post on its Messenger page that it has been testing the feature and stressed that it is completely optional.

Users who choose to activate the feature will see their standard Messenger messages in blue and their SMS messages in purple, and those SMS messages will support text, images, videos, stickers, emoji and location sharing.

Facebook offered instructions on how to turn on the feature in its Messenger post:

  1. Open Messenger and tap on Settings (the person icon).
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