Over the past month, we saw more than a 100% increase in people using their desktop browser for audio and video calling on Messenger. Now more than ever, people are using technology to stay in touch with the people they care about, even when physically apart. The new app will, however, enable you to maintain your chats while you go about other things, with the ability to pop in and out of the app as you work, while it'll also provide a new notification system, integrated with your PC's OS.Īlso, it has a 'dark mode' for those who are passionate about such things.Today we’re launching a Messenger app for MacOS and Windows so you can video chat on your computer and stay connected with friends and family all over the world.

You can already access Messenger via the web, and conduct calls from your desktop PC, so it's not a huge leap in this respect. With this in mind, the new Messenger desktop app make sense - though functionally, it doesn't add a heap.

In a recent update on its efforts to keep its systems running amid rising demand due to the COVID-19 lockdowns, Facebook noted that v ideo calling on both Messenger and WhatsApp has more than doubled in recent weeks. According to the latest report from App Annie, downloads of multi-participant video chat app Houseparty grew 735x in March, while video meeting app Zoom has gone from 10 million users in December 2019, to 200 million right now.įacebook, too, has seen demand for video messaging increase. Indeed, demand for video connection tools is on the rise.

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