Instagram separates messaging feature into a new app called Direct, currently in testing

07 December 2017
Facebook's Snapchat clone has come full circle.

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  • Mika
  • yNP
  • 16 Aug 2022

have problems with messanger with instagram feuture in Israel please help!!!

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    • Gchong
    • 7Xc
    • 20 Jan 2018

    They supposedly seperate the app so that they will double their income, what a terrible move

      • N
      • Nexus 5
      • nDN
      • 11 Dec 2017

      D A M N. When Instagram used to be good, taking all those square pictures and an app for your feed, no ads and other nonsense... we're going down

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        • Boby
        • 0TF
        • 08 Dec 2017

        Old Instagram without stories and direct is way better

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          • Anonymous
          • yA8
          • 08 Dec 2017

          Wtf is with them and splitting features up.

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            • AnonD-558092
            • r7b
            • 08 Dec 2017

            Tony, 08 Dec 2017Only fools gonna download another apps for another apps's m... moreThen I officially announce that our Earth is carrying more than a billion of fools.(Messenger...)

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              • Ng
              • sF}
              • 08 Dec 2017

              In couple of month later social apps on phone will more that games
              Taking more storage
              Next trend will be
              Main apps for just reading
              Second for call
              Third for video call
              For chatting
              For sharing
              5 apps for one social

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                • Tony
                • K@6
                • 08 Dec 2017

                AnonD-558092, 07 Dec 2017Why do they separate every single feature from their main a... moreOnly fools gonna download another apps for another apps's messaging

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                  • Beyond
                  • bJb
                  • 08 Dec 2017

                  Separate app is the worst move. Separate app take more storage, RAM and even drain more battery.

                  Facebook, are you drunk?

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                    • AnonD-60070
                    • PAS
                    • 08 Dec 2017

                    Why though?

                    It'll kill the App
                    why would users wants to install separates app when previously the Main App will do the job just fine.

                    as for my experiences
                    - When Facebook force it's user to install 'Messenger' app to be able to send messages, I stop using facebook all together.
                    - Path (in my Country Path are very popular around 2014) and then when Path Decides it needs separate app for messaging then it forced us to install 'Talk', and again I stopped using Path altogether (on my knowledge the recently scrap Talk and re-integrated the messaging to main Path app, but the damages are done, no way to go back again)

                    and now Instagram follow it fellow failures.
                    let see how it goes.

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                      • SherlockHolmes
                      • S4s
                      • 08 Dec 2017

                      By this way when snapchat, viber, skype and others remember we need a separate app to messaging and other to do video calls, and other to make audio calls...and other to record notes, and other to send gifs, other to send emoji's....BAAAAH! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

                      i dont use facebook because is useless need a second app to send messages when they can be built-in in the main app! BUT NO, you need one extra app not only to do that but to drain even more fast battery...so, THIS KIND OF THINGS NEED TO STOP! People who use them need to stop use them to theyr developers learn with the mistakes.

                      PEOPLE CHANGE THE APPS YOU USE AND GIVE A NO T DEVELOPERS WHO DO THIS KIND OF CR/\P.

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                        • AnonD-580901
                        • JcM
                        • 08 Dec 2017

                        F……k Facebook,whatsapp and f……k snapchat copies.
                        Using snapchat since 2014 and most of my friends abandoned it because instagram allowed same functionality. Now they will return.
                        Facebook is a greedy annoying thing. I have never used messenger on Android (use opera mini browser) and will never use this lame shenanigan

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                          • Chard
                          • tDQ
                          • 07 Dec 2017

                          Really, what is ur intention Facebook? You got Messenger seperated, now instagram direct. You have THREE different chat platfotm. All featuring damn same feature. Thankfully, dont use facebook anymore, and reluctuntly open Instagram. Facebook is so yikes.

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                            • AnonD-558092
                            • r7b
                            • 07 Dec 2017

                            Why do they separate every single feature from their main apps? In 10 years, we'll have 150 messaging apps spun off from Instagram alone. Hopefully, I do not waste my precious time on such useless ways of communicating. I just wanted to express how the my gemeration is perhaps the most conceited generation of humanity.