Surround and conquer is Facebook's new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages from inside Facebook Messenger for Android ...

Facebook's takeover strategy hit a new milestone Tuesday. The company announced that SMS text messages can now be sent and received through its Android Messenger app.

Facebook Messenger lost the ability to send SMS messages back in 2013, but now the functionality is back with a vengeance.

While SMS in Messenger will support texting, photos, videos, audio, and content like emoji and stickers, you’ll still have to use Messenger to send things like payments and GIFs.

Facebook has announced that it will be discontinuing the ability to send and receive SMS messages through its Messenger app. This feature was initially introduced in 2016, but now Facebook has ...

Facebook Messenger first offered SMS support in 2012, but that was dropped by 2013. In 2016, Facebook tried again with SMS kept separate from web-based communications.

Facebook’s takeover strategy hit a new milestone Tuesday. The company announced that SMS text messages can now be sent and received through its Android Messenger app.