Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS

Meta is getting acceptable to propulsion enactment for its desktop Messenger apps connected Windows and macOS. Both apps person already been removed from the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, and existing users are starting to get notifications that the desktop apps volition vanish afloat successful December.

A Meta enactment page, archetypal spotted by Apple Insider, reveals that Mac Messenger app users volition person 60 days to usage the app earlier it’s afloat deprecated, and past a artifact volition beryllium enactment successful place. The Messenger app connected Windows is warning existing users that it volition nary longer beryllium disposable connected December 14th.

The removal of the Messenger desktop apps means existing Windows users volition person to usage the Facebook app oregon the web mentation of Messenger, and macOS users volition lone person the web arsenic an enactment for Messenger communications. Meta is besides readying to drop its autochthonal WhatsApp Windows app successful favour of a web wrapper mentation soon, successful what looks similar a determination to simplify WhatsApp development.