Facebook Adds SMS To Messenger And How To Enable It

BY GreenBot Staff

GreenBot Staff

...

All Articles by GreenBot Staff

Published 14 Jun 2016

Why trust Greenbot

We maintain a strict editorial policy dedicated to factual accuracy, relevance, and impartiality. Our content is written and edited by top industry professionals with first-hand experience. The content undergoes thorough review by experienced editors to guarantee and adherence to the highest standards of reporting and publishing.

Facebook wants its Messenger app to be the central hub for all your conversations. The social network announced in June 2016 that Messenger could send and receive SMS, and MMS messages on Android, elevating the feature.

You can quickly get it from the Play Store if you haven’t yet. If you already have Messenger, follow the guide below to activate the SMS feature. You may ask Where is the SMS in Messenger? Open the app, and tap your profile picture; this will go to Settings. Click the SMS, then toggle the Default SMS app. Then you are done, and your SMS conversations will be purple to differentiate them from the Facebook conversations. You can toggle off this setting to switch to another SMS app.

face 2 — Once enabled, Messenger can handle all your SMS and Facebook conversations.

Facebook doesn’t store or save any of your SMS conversations on its servers. However, you get to use all those stickers, emojis, and location-sharing features native to Messenger with your SMS chats.

Why does this matter? Some other messaging clients often don’t include an option to send SMS messages. SMS Text messages are a popular way to contact people. They don’t require contacts to use the same app or service as you. Messenger solved this pretty well when they added the SMS service, a worthwhile option to stay in touch. The Ultimate answer for anyone that uses both Messenger and needs to SMS text, other people. Users have the best of both services in one application.