Grosse panne Facebook et Instagram : les applications et les sites sont HS, impossible de se connecter

Depuis le milieu d’après-midi, les utilisateurs de Facebook, Instagram ou Messenger n’arrivent plus à se connecter aux trois services de Meta. Les plaintes se multiplient sur la toile. Crédits : Unsplash Si vous rencontrez des difficultés à vous connecter à Facebook, Messenger et Instagram depuis le milieu d’après-midi de ce mardi 5 mars 2024, vous […]

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Facebook Messenger Rolls Out End-to-End Encryption by Default

Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for personal messages and calls on Messenger and Facebook, finally delivering on a pledge it committed to some time ago. Messenger encryption originally arrived in 2016 in the form of “secret conversations,” and plans to extend the platform’s cryptographic features have been floated ever since. According to Loredana Crisan, […]

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Instagram and Facebook Messenger Chats to Disconnect This Month

Meta has revealed plans to end Instagram users’ ability to chat with Facebook accounts later this month, rolling back a feature that it introduced over three years ago. In September 2020, Meta (then Facebook) announced it was merging its Facebook Messenger service with Instagram direct messaging, allowing Instagram users to chat with Facebook users and […]

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Facebook Messenger : les stickers par IA n’ont aucune limite et peuvent générer vos pires idées

Avec l’arrivée des stickers générés par IA au sein de Facebook Messenger, les utilisateurs ont voulu tester les limites de la fonctionnalité. Le problème, c’est que celle-ci n’en a visiblement aucune. Sur X, (Twitter), on a ainsi pu voir émerger des propositions de stickers au mieux étonnantes, au pire très problématiques. Crédits : 123RF Il arrive […]

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Facebook Messenger : envoyer et recevoir des SMS, c’est terminé à la rentrée

Avis à ceux qui utilisent Facebook Messenger comme appli de messagerie par défaut, à partir du 28 septembre 2023, Messenger ne pourra plus recevoir ou envoyer de textos. La fin d’une époque. Crédits : 123RF Depuis 2016, les utilisateurs peuvent faire de Messenger leur application de messagerie par défaut. En d’autres termes, on peut recevoir […]

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Facebook Messenger va supprimer son application sur Apple Watch

Coup de tonnerre pour les propriétaires d’Apple Watch, l’application Messenger de Meta va disparaître d’ici quelques jours seulement, même si les utilisateurs pourront toujours voir les messages entrants. Meta met fin à son application Messenger pour Apple Watch le 31 mai, a confirmé l’entreprise. Les utilisateurs d’Apple Watch qui ont installé l’application sont informés « qu’après […]

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Facebook Messenger Apple Watch App to Be Discontinued By End of May, Says Meta

Facebook Messenger’s Apple Watch app will be discontinued at the end of this month, according to Meta, ending the ability for users to reply to messages on the service from their wrist. Posts shared on social media carried a screenshot of a notification sent to a handful of users in recent days informing them that […]

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You can soon play games together in Facebook Messenger during video calls

Facebook may be declining, but it still has billions of active users worldwide. Even Facebook Messenger has over a billion monthly active users. To improve engagement among those users, Meta is launching games inside Facebook Messenger that users can play during video calls. This new feature was announced via a press release on Facebook Gaming’s […]

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Facebook est accusé de vider secrètement les batteries des smartphones

Un ancien employé poursuit la société mère de Facebook pour cette pratique son “test négatif”, qui consiste à vider les batteries des téléphones portables des utilisateurs afin de pouvoir tester certaines fonctionnalités des applications. Crédit : rokastenys / 123RF Si vous avez déjà remarqué que votre batterie se vide anormalement vite lorsque vous utilisez l’application […]

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Facebook Messenger update brings themes, reactions to end-to-end encrypted chats

Facebook might not be as popular today as other social media platforms, but its component, Facebook Messenger, is still widely used by billions. It was previously a part of Facebook, which was later presented as a standalone app. This allowed users without a Facebook account to use the messaging platform. While Messenger might not be […]

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How to Disable Your Active Status on Facebook and Facebook Messenger

iOS 16: How to Silence Notifications From Specific People When in a Focus Mode In iOS 16, currently in beta, Apple has made several improvements to Focus Mode, a feature that aims to help reduce distractions and let you zone in on a single thing. Part of the way Focus does this is by filtering […]

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How to Enable End-to-End Encryption in Facebook Messenger

Facebook Messenger claims to be a secure platform for private communications, but the truth is that regular conversations conducted through the app are not end-to-end encrypted, which puts your sensitive information at considerable risk. End-to-end encryption ensures that only you and the person you’re communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and […]

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Facebook Messenger Gains New Slack-Style Shortcuts Command System

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Meta brings upgraded encryption experience to Messenger

End-to-end encryption for messaging apps is both something that’s a much-requested feature and also something that’s controversial for a lot of sectors. Meta has already pushed back their plans to bring default encryption to Facebook Messenger sometime in 2023, but now they’re bringing a sort-of upgraded encryption experience to group chats and calls on the […]

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Messenger Kids’ Pledge Planet teaches internet safety for young users

Parents will most likely not be able to keep their kids off the online world so the next best thing would be to teach them internet safety. Of course, it’s not something that would really get their interest so you would have to sort of gamify the lessons. Meta is launching Pledge Planet on Messenger […]

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UK Government Readies Anti-Encryption Publicity Campaign to ‘Keep Children Safe’ Online

The British Government is reportedly preparing a publicity attack on end-to-end encryption in an effort to mobilize public opinion against the technology by framing it as a child safety issue, with its main aim being to derail Facebook’s plan to end-to-end encrypt its Messenger platform. According to Rolling Stone, the Home Office has hired the […]

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Meta brings holiday-themed features to Messenger, Instagram DMs

This holiday season some people will be able to spend it with loved ones in-person. But there’s still a lot that will depend on communication apps like Messenger and Instagram DMs to keep in touch with others. Meta has now announced this year’s holiday-themed features for their messaging platforms and as expected, it includes AR […]

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Facebook Delays Plans to Use End-to-End Encryption As Default for Messenger and Instagram Messages Until at Least 2023

Facebook, now rebranded to “Meta,” is delaying plans to use end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram messages until at least 2023, a year later than the previous deadline promised by the social media behemoth. Writing in The Telegraph, Meta’s head of global safety, Antigone Davis, said that the company is pushing back its deadline to […]

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Facebook brings cross-app group chats, themes, polls, Watch Together

Facebook has previously promised more cross-app integrations between its products and even though there has been criticisms and objections from various stakeholders, they seem to be pushing through with more updates. The latest one lets users have cross-app group messaging for Messenger and Instagram as well as new features that you can use across both […]

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