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Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite for Android in September

techcrunch.com Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite for Android in September | TechCrunch

Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite, its lightweight stripped-down version of Messenger, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.

Meta is shutting down Messenger Lite for Android in September | TechCrunch
  • Meta is retiring Messenger Lite, a simpler version of Messenger aimed at phones with lower-end specs.
  • The app was introduced in 2016 for Android users and had been downloaded about 760 million times globally, with India being the top user.
  • Although there was an iOS version, it was closed in 2020. - In other news, Messenger will stop supporting SMS next month, and Meta aims to add end-to-end encryption to Messenger chats by year's end.
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  • I tried using lite version but there were so many features missing that I had to give up. Also, my biggest privacy dream currently is to witch from messenger to signal. Not possible tho

    • I've actually just started using Beeper instead of Messenger. It's not perfect, but it's pretty neat having it all hooked into Matrix.

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